Pretend to be something you’re not until you are — fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them. - Austin Kleon

What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.

Don’t be jealous when the people you like do well — celebrate their victory as if it’s your own.

Art is not only made from things that "spark joy." Art is also made out of what is ugly or repulsive to us. Part of the artist's job is to help tidy up the place, to make order out of chaos, to turn trash into treasure, to show us beauty where we can't see it.