Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Inertia is the death of creativity

Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.