The Ends Do Not Justify The Means

If You Become So Frightened Of Realities That Are Not Your Own, If You Take Upon Yourselves Tragedies That Do Not Exist In Your Reality, In Your Moment, Then You Weaken Your Position And Weaken The Position, Of Those You Think You Are Helping. You Look About You And You See Only Hopelessness And Helplessness. You Organize Your Reality According To The Tragedies Of The Newspapers!

More Than Ever, We Express Ourselves With What We Buy And How We Use What We Buy. Extensions Of Our Personality, Totems Of Our Selves, Reminders Of Who We Are Or Would Like To Be. Great Marketers Don't Make Stuff. They Make Meaning.

We Can't Suddenly Quit A Job And Then Race To Find A Form Of Art That Will Pay Off Before The Next Mortgage Payment Is Due. Creating Art Is A Habit, One That We Practice Daily Or Hourly Until We Get Good At It … Art Isn’t About The Rush Of Victory That Comes From Being Picked. Nor Does It Involve Compliance. Art In The Post-industrial Age Is A Lifelong Habit, A Stepwise Process That Incrementally Allows Us To Create More Art.

Take A Chance On Your Own Abilities Clearly, Neither Exaggerating Them Nor Under-assessing Them.

People Do Not Buy Goods And Services. They Buy Relations, Stories And Magic.