Stay strong re: artistic vision--

How can you learn from a particular project if you waiver on that vision? The linear progression will become muddled, making it hard to accurately judge the success or failure of an idea. And remember, failure is just another word for progress.

Design is not a habit, skill, craft, or idea. It is a lifestyle. It will make itself known in everything you do. It will ooze out of every pore, and clothe those around you. Great design has no time.

Sculpture is about form. In form we like to find contrast, but what is the opposite of contrast in form? Space? Thinking about application, space around form emphasizes the whole form. In my sculpture, I think not only about the form, but also how I use the space around it.

Don't worry about the winding path your life may take. Pursue the things you love, the things that inspire you or keep you up at night with excitement. Pursue this. Understand that the bends and turns are what make your perspective unique.

The best art is beautiful and graceful in its arrangement/details/shapes while also representing something well. Representing a truth or reality.

The most beautiful sculpture is a series of simple shapes, each sculpted with the utmost attention, that combine to represent the natural. The natural being something that humans can relate.

If you have to know a particular language in order to appreciate the thing being expressed, then is it truly a great thing? If it can't be understood by the simplest of people who are willing to look, at least emotionally, then it has not reached it's most true and beautiful expression.