The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. - Austin Kleon

More than 400 years ago, Michel de Montaigne, in his essay “On Experience,” wrote, “In my opinion, the most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles . . . and the most marvelous examples.

Online, everyone — the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur — has the ability to contribute something.

The people who get what they're after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.