I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
Art has to address eternal issues.