Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don’t whisper in my ear, and ideas don’t flow over my body like a cool rain.
But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone – they have a potential to gain so much more.
Go have fun and make money.
It’s about whittling. It’s about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you’ve got something.
If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one.
By believing your work is a ‘gift,’ it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It’s no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.
If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, how can you assume anyone else will.
Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being.
No one can stand in the way of your personal greatness.
When we think of our work as a gift, it radically changes what we create.
In the particular lies the universal.
Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.
The life you want doesn’t exist. You have to make it up.
We’re supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.
I am everyone I have ever loved.
The first rule of business is FUN.
We are born with magic inside of us.
Your biggest fear is not spiders or sharks – it’s you. It’s the fear of expressing who you are – lest someone actually see you.
Bad art makes you say, “Wow! Huh?” Good art makes you say, “Huh? Wow!” Looking at bad art is like eating fast food. You’re excited about the thought of it, but when it hits your stomach, the relationship ends quickly. Good art is seen, but not immediately understood – “Huh?” Then comes the “Aha!” moment when the subtext, the real meaning, unfolds and our mind expands.
Krishna tells Arjun, “You are not entitled to the fruit of your labor – only the labor itself.
Newton’s first law tells us, an object at rest – like your ass – tends to stay at rest.