What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.