Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.