According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.