The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it