Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.