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I'm a big believer in creating even if you don't have someone to create for.
If you don't have a point of view in the work you're making, you're just making stuff that looks like everyone else.
The great truth of it is that we are all creative people.
Good design connects on a powerful emotional level — something above just communicating the information.
You have to have power, but not necessarily a title.
I believe the spirit of creativity is to create, to make.
If you truly are curious, it's very difficult to be hateful.
It takes reckless zeal and an aptitude for risk to make it happen.
Regret turns to gratitude, and that gratitude gives way to relationships.
I learned how to form an argument by getting it wrong a lot.
You have to realize you can paint over it.
Nobody is born where they need to be.
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