Be Like PTA. Be Like Louis. Be Like Zach Hill. Do The Work. Be Humble. Don't Be Desperate. Be Patient. Do The Work. Be careful not to become another cry-baby face-tatted drug-addicted wannabe. Channel WILL into the Art. You are An Artist, Be An Artist. You are Not a Businessman. Listen to Artists, not Businessmen. You don't need to do everything you can to 'Blow Up' right this second. People will put all their energy into blowing up and then they achieve their 15 minutes and then what? They Go Into Business- they don't have life-long careers as artists. Why? Because they were always businessmen. If You want to be an Artist, Be An Artist. Write better, Play better. "But in order to blow up you have to ..".. No. Be An Artist. Love The Work. With Patience, help will come. Rav Kook Did Not Publish His Writings - He believed, that perhaps someone would be divinely inspired to publish his work, if his work was worthy of being sold.

Whatever, just expose your psyche.. release, put it out there. The less you can treat it as belonging to you the better. That is your job. Expose. This is rooted in the belief that exposing one's self, one's psyche, is ultimately a positive act, however flawed the things you are exposing will be (and they will be). Its Okay. This is a practice of Letting Go of Self.

Do What You Can With The Resources You Have Sometimes the most beautiful things are created using the most basic of tools.

Complete your Ideas. Why? Because It is an absolute Tragedy for Good Ideas not to be nurtured, developed, actualized, shared. To be given up on. This is the tragedy that an Artist simply can not live with and accept, and must protest against. An unrealized Idea is tragic for the same reason as a premature death - it's in the imagination of the potential that never became - it Hurts. it's Wrong.

If you continuously strive to unlock, nurture, develop, and actualize ideas, because you do not exist alone in the World, you are bound to communicate to somebody, somewhere, at some point in time.

Be assertive enough to believe in the value of your own ideas. Surely nobody else will be the first to believe in them. Fight for them. And by value I am not merely referring to commodity. "But if not for commodity, then what is this potential value in an idea? And why expend so much energy into it?" The answer is something in the realm of the Divine… Because if everyone only cared about commodity then the World would not be Beautiful, how about that.

One Sign of a Terrible Idea is almost nobody will think it's a good Idea. One Sign of a Great Idea is almost nobody will think it's a good idea.

Be Like Tool, Be Like Tarantino. 5 Albums. 10 Films. Vision a Body of Work, Carefully and Delicately. You Do Not Need to share all the paint you throw at the wall - I mean you can - but separate out Dedicated Major Bodies Of Work - Built To Last.

One day it will be time to say "be like Rav Kook, be like Rav Nachman, ..." It is obvious that there exists in me this secular role model - he is the sum of all great secular artists. he is deeply engraved in my being. he cannot be completely ignored, denied, or destroyed, but perhaps transformed.

The Western mindset can tend to stress fast productive output. The stress of productive output can be an enemy of creativity. Great Experiments are not conducted with a Great Pressure of a quick "pay off". The process of experimentation accepts the risk of 'failure' in terms of productive output.

Most people do not allow themselves to be creative because they do not allow themselves to truly experiment. They are quick to judge their ideas, they criticize the delicate ego, they get defeated quickly, they think 'Who am I', and so they never even try. The Great quality of the creative is their ability to experiment freely, and their Trust in the Goodness of experimentation.

I just want to engage in Creative acts! Plain and Simple! And I do it with the most Pure Love and Greatest of Excitement, for as long as I can remember. When I was a child I could just find such a great peace in drawing for hours and hours and hours. This place is where I lose my Self. Then when I become aware that I have a natural talent that is so Powerful and Undeniable so I want to do it more and more and more. I think I think differently than most people. Maybe I can find here my eventual role in the World. I want to make my Parents Proud.

When I was 19 I retreated from Society almost as completely as one can. I think up until then I had always wrestled with periodic feelings of unfitness. I can say I despise the social "play" but that must be sourced in just feeling sometimes no good at it. To feel unfit, and that there's nothing I could even do to help -that's a difficult way to feel. But I kept showing up. I stayed in the Play. Until one day.. I just broke. "I'm not doing it anymore". I protested. I'd remind myself that I am, or can be, good for something. I saw that really I am just way off the charts in certain areas. Wow It Excites me. Maybe I should go lock myself in a room and from there I would figure out how to accomplish my value, connection, and role in this World. So I did - but I didn't. As I have reemerged since, back to relative health, I still can wrestle with those same feelings of unfitness that I always periodically felt. Those feelings have always drove me toward desiring Intense Creative Work.