The Best Creative Solutions Don't Come From

No One Has Ever Built A Statue To A Critic, It's True. On The Other Hand, It's Only The People With Statues That Get Pooped On By Birds Flying By.

If You Set Your Bar At 'amazing' It's Awfully Difficult To Start. Your First Paragraph, Sketch, Formula, Sample Or Concept Isn't Going To Be Amazing. Your Tenth One Might Not Be Either. Confronted With The Gap Between Your Vision Of Perfect And The Reality Of What You've Created, The Easiest Path Is No Path. Shrug. Admit Defeat. Hit Delete. One More Reason To Follow Someone Else And Wait For Instructions. Of Course, The Only Path To Amazing Runs Directly Through Not-yet-amazing. But Not-yet-amazing Is A Great Place To Start, Because That's Where You Are.

A Big Part Of Doing Your Work Is Defending Your Time And Your Attention So You Can Do Your Work.

Art Is The Work Of A Human, An Individual Seeking To Make A Statement, To Cause A Reaction, To Connect. Art Is Something New, Every Time, And Art Might Not Work, Precisely Because It's New, Because It's Human And Because It Seeks To Connect.

We've Greatly Exaggerated The Risk Of Sinking, Without Celebrating The Value Of Swimming.