I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Great work is always shunned at first.
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.