Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.

Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don’t try to do everything. You aren’t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.

You too are a brand. Whether you know it or not. Whether you like it or not.