“Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.”

“Everybody says they want artists to make money and then when they do, everybody hates them for it. The word sellout is spit out by the bitterest, smallest parts of ourselves. Don't be one of those ...”

“Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.”

“Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. J...”

“The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.”

“Comments outnumber ideas.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.”

“Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. J...”

“The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.”