This is one of the biggest secrets of the most creative, happy, successful people: Just start.

Put bluntly, too many of us spend years, even decades, in pursuit of someone else’s plan for our one precious life.

We’ve been trained to avoid creative obstacles rather than risk trying to surmount them.

It’s never very clear what you’re supposed to do instead – only that pursuing creativity is lofty, selfish, or even naive.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this ‘art of more’ should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that’s good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to be clear – I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

The gear you can’t afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.

It’s really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.

Creativity is the new literacy.