Elle Luna
"You need a physical space—private, safe, and just for you. When you are in this space, you are not available. I repeat, you are not available. This is your sacred space to be by and with yourself. We all need safe containers."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | creative process, protect the art, Elle Luna
"When you're stuck, when you need a jolt, when you crave to see things from a new perspective, it's time to play." (artist)
— Elle Luna (photo by Yuriy Balan)
for Creatives | creative process, photography, artists, creative block, artists must EXPERIENCE, Yuriy Balan, Elle Luna
"If you're not prioritizing the things you say you care about, consider the possibility that you don't actually care about those things."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | KEEP CREATING, protect the art, value the art, Elle Luna
"Share your Must, and in so doing, lift the lives of others. ... When you choose Must, you inspire others to choose it, too."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | reaching your audience, value the art, artists supporting artists, Elle Luna
The Crossroads of Should and Must
Find and Follow Your Passion... (written & illustrated by Elle Luna)
for Creatives | books, art, nonfiction, creativity, the creative life, Elle Luna, priorities, design your life
Follow Your Curiosity"When you follow Must every day, you impact not only what you create for your work, but also who you become in your life. This is how your work and your life become one and the same. When you choose Must, what you create is yourself. It is a body of work. As you change, so too does the work. As you grow, so too does the creation."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | creative process, artist integrity, artists, artist in the art, the creative life, Elle Luna, never stop LEARNING
"When you play with new tools and methods, you will literally activate parts of your mind that have become hard to reach over time."
— Elle Luna
"Vision needs solitude. Leadership needs solitude. Courage needs solitude. Because when our choices evolve from an internal place of sure-footed, rooted knowing, we become resilient, emboldened, and focused."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | artist integrity, solitude of creating, protect the art, Elle Luna
"When you live the fullness of your life, you lift the collective human experience.'
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | artists must EXPERIENCE, the creative life, Elle Luna
"When you know why you are here—what you were put on this earth to do—it is challenging to go back to life as you knew it and be satisfied."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | artist integrity, the creative life, Elle Luna
"The author T.S. Eliot was also a banker. Another writer, Kurt Vonnegut, sold cars. One of the greatest composers of our time, Philip Glass, didn’t earn a living from his calling making music until he was forty-two. Even as his work was premiering at the Met, he worked as a plumber and renewed his taxi license, just in case."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | creating isn't easy, artists, music, writing, the creative life, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Elle Luna, Philip Glass
"What if who we are and what we do become one and the same? What if our work is so thoroughly autobiographical that we can't parse the product from the person? In this place, job descriptions and titles no longer make sense; we no longer go to work, we are the work."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | artist in the art, the creative life, Elle Luna
"Picasso had incredible talent, but the secret to his genius was this—Picasso’s life blended seamlessly with his work."
— Elle Luna
for Creatives | the creative life, value the art, painting, Elle Luna, Pablo Picasso