CreativeMornings ™

If we're talking about community, more than anthing with anything, I think that by being genuinely interested it helps to build that. By following your 'ooohs' is the best way to keep having more 'ooohs'.

Whoever you're working with, no matter what they do, or who they are, it's wonderful to be able to work out what they're about and from there you can play, problem solve, explore, and take risks.

I knew from art school that to keep these 'ooohs' coming, you need to learn more about everything.

Art can help us heal and open us up to honesty in profound ways.

You’ll be surprised how many people are willing to help, are willing to support, and that are willing to have your back through it all when you step out there and you just be yourself.

In those moments of hardship, it becomes a true test of character: What are you going to do? How are you going to become better because of it?

You’re never going to stop growing. Things are going to change.

If we live in constant restart, we will find ourselves prepared for the unexpected, adaptable, grounded and inspired. We will grow, find deeper understanding, empathy, light, perspective, our better selves and love.

If we really wish to grow creatively, emotionally, intellectually, we must live in constant restart. We must embrace the unexpected, challenge ourselves to take risks, see the world differently, try new things and eat giant sandwiches.

Discover the unknown. Experiencing something new makes you new.

Inspiration can come from the unlikeliest of places.

If you take a step back from things and clear your head, you can rejoin and look back at it with fresh eyes.

The best ideas and life decisions often come when we embrace simple truths, and simple ideas are sometimes the most powerful.

There are reasons to feel proud to be human. If we can make art about that, if we can focus on those things, if we can just think about it throughout our day, I think it will change us.

There's a lot of things to be worried about these days, but if you focus on trying to create new things, your curiosity can outgrow your fear.

Hope is built into our species. . . . Why can't we use that more?

I feel like what's being lost in this world is the curiosity to find out and the personal intention to try to figure things out on your own.

The next time you're having a bad day or you're rethinking your path, remember, that the bad days are what literally make the good days exist, that no matter what you're going through, someone has been there before and that you're never alone in your endeavors because your community is right here for you.

Choose a path that works towards your definition of success.

We should all live lives where work and play are so seamlessly intertwined that it always appears that we're doing both.

The very phrase work-life balance in itself connotes that work and life are two separate things, when in reality it should be one.

As a photographer or a content creator we have the responsibility to capture our most honest version of the truth.

The pressures of society has a tendency to socialize us out of our obsessions. We learn to value practicality over creativity, competition over collaboration, money over time, and fear over courage.

Our minds are discursive because of what we feed it.

Not a good thought, not a bad thought. Just a thought. Not a good story, not a bad story. Just a story.