What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?
Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?
If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.
Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.