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.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

Habits are more powerful than fears.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else