Freelance Artist Quotes

Many entrepreneurs have a “can do” attitude, which is often a requirement if you want to succeed. Unfortunately, this attitude often leads to a dangerous mindset where you feel like you need to do everything yourself.

You need to bootstrap when you first start your business, but once money starts coming in, it’s important to focus on your strengths and hire people to do everything else.

ideas are lost if they aren’t captured in some way. Additionally, according to the Zeigarnick Effect, any incomplete thought—such as an idea or task you need to complete—will occupy your mind until you take some kind of action on it by either completing the task or capturing the idea with a plan for accomplishing the task.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Freelance' means I can take watermelon breaks and no one can yell at me.

In Rick’s experience, graphic artists were eternally unhappy–torn between genuine artistic talent and the demands of producers with all the aesthetic vision of a plundering Visigoth. The

Successful entrepreneurs aren’t always the ones with the most talent. They face many of the same challenges you and I face. What sets them apart is their solid foundation of habits and daily routines.

Really, the only way to make a habit stick is to turn it into automatic behavior.

With a new habit, create a goal that’s too small to fail. Stay focused on what you need to do right now and ignore future milestones. Then make tiny, incremental changes. At first, you won’t notice a shift in your habits. However, on a long enough timeline, you’ll develop a permanent change to your routine.

Really, it starts with a shift of mindset. With a new habit, reinforce this behavior by saying things like: “I’m the type of person who ____.”  Then, follow through by doing it on a daily basis. Eventually your internal identity will match this daily routine.

Your goal as an entrepreneur should be to be unforgettable—for

have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Pick three areas of your life and think about the worst things that could possibly happen in those areas. Then think about what you would do if your worst-case scenarios came true. For example, you might think about what you would do if you lost a big client, lost your home or lost some aspect of your health.

Saying no doesn’t make you a selfish person. In fact, it can make you a generous person since saying no to the wrong things opens up time to say yes to the right things. Remember that whenever you agree to one thing, you are, in essence, saying no to something else that might be more important.

Change, even when it seems disastrous, provides incredible opportunities if you’re able to look at seeming disasters through the lens of possibility.

Halfway through the day, Megan started dicking around on the internet. She made her browser window as small as she could, paused for a second, and then looked up “Carrie Wilkins.” She found Carrie’s website, and on it, this bio: Hi, my name’s Carrie. I’m 26. I make things. I paint and I write, but mostly I design. I like to make things beautiful, or creative. I make my own food and I’m trying to grow my own beets. A lot of people around me seem unhappy and I don’t understand why. I freelance because I know I’d go insane if I couldn’t make my own schedule—I believe variety is the zest of life. I know I want a dog someday soon, and sometimes I make lunch at 3 a.m. I believe in the power of collaboration, and I’d love to work with you! What a total asshole. What does she have, some kind of a pact with Satan? The picture next to Carrie’s bio had some kind of heavy filter on it that made it look vintage, and she had a friendly but aloof look on her face. She was flanked on both sides by plants and was wearing an oxford shirt with fancy shorts and had a cool necklace. It was an outfit, for sure, like all of Carrie’s clothes were outfits, which Megan always thought of as outdated or something only children did. The website linked to a blog, which was mostly photos of Carrie doing different things. It didn’t take too long to find the picture of her with the llama with a caption about how she and her boss got it from a homeless guy. And then just products. Pictures and pictures of products, and then little captions about how the products inspired her. Motherfucker, thought Megan. She doesn’t get it at all. It was like looking at an ad for deodorant or laundry soap that made you feel smelly and like you’d been doing something wrong that the person in the ad had already figured out, but since it was an ad, there was no real way to smell the person and judge for yourself whether or not the person stank, and that was what she hated, hated, hated most of all. I make things, gee-wow. You think you’re an artist? Do you really thing this blog is a representation of art, that great universalizer? That great transmigrator? This isolating schlock that makes me feel like I have to buy into you and your formula for happiness? Work as a freelance designer, grow beets, travel, have lots of people who like you, and above all have funsies! “Everything okay?” asked Jillian. “Yeah, what?” “Breathing kind of heavy over there, just making sure you were okay and everything.” “Oh, uh-huh, I’m fine,” said Megan. “It’s not . . . something I’m doing, is it?” “What? No. No, I’m fine,” said Megan. How could someone not understand that other people could be unhappy? What kind of callous, horrible bullshit was that to say to a bunch of twenty-yearolds, particularly, when this was the time in life when things were even more acutely painful than they were in high school, that nightmare fuck, because now there were actual stakes and everyone was coming to grips with the fact that they’re going to die and that life might be empty and unrewarding. Why even bring it up? Why even make it part of your mini-bio?

Artists face unique hurdles compared to other occupations. A large percentage of employment in the media and entertainment industry is either contract or freelance. Which means it’s more difficult for artists to access bank loans, credit cards, rental properties and capital.

(Frank is not a fan of pancakes.) My dad hasn’t worked for the last two months, so he’s on kitchen patrol. He’s been a freelance storyboard artist for decades, but the movie industry’s in a slump and it’s