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

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

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

The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

Creativity is the new literacy

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

Art is a subset of creativity.

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book

That you are misserable and full demons and angry don't make the others like you... It's your problem, as for me I want to continue to be positive!

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

We don't come here for our health.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.