What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.
We notice what we choose to notice.
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.