Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t. - Austin Kleon

Teaching people doesn’t subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it.

Fake it till you make it. I love this phrase. There are two ways to read it:
1. Pretend to be you're something you're not until you are - fake it until youre successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them to; or
2. Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.
I love both readings, you have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.” — Jim Jarmusch