"It doesn’t matter what your art is, if your intention is to earn a living from it and thrive in your art, that proposal will help you figure out how you’re going to get there.”

It’s been an evolution to be a professional artist, and it’s taken me a long time to get here....I’m coming around to really seeing this as not only what I do, but my lifestyle and my income.”

"The best way to learn business is to start doing it."

"Successful people say 'Yeah, I failed, but I did learn, and this is how I’ll apply it to the next thing I do.'"

"One has to focus on strategy instead of tactic: tactic is the thing you’re going to do, strategy is the plan of how you’ll get respect, get well-known and get people to buy your work."

"There is a shame around making money off of swag or reproductions or something else that isn’t art---but that is making money off of art."

“Art is a cool business---it's the only one I know where the customer often buys dinner.”

They’re not separate at all---the market and museum---there are galleries now where there’s very little work in the exhibition that’s for sale. They’re publishing books and ‘competing’ with museums. The lines are becoming blurrier and some of that is p...

"I don’t mind letting people see the process and where I go wrong, that’s part of the creative process and what people are interested in."

"I see a lack of confidence standing in people's way, they don't trust what they're thinking, they don't trust what they're painting, and as soon as they get a little confident I see a huge change."