Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.