One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.

One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.