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I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.