If a client doesn’t value your work, then you shouldn’t sell it to them cheap, or trade it, & definitely never give it away.

Painting is a messy business.

Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they work for. The artists that are making a difference, under their own name, in their own style, on their own terms, must forever own their own work, spiritually and legally

Sometimes you get tired of all the pats on the back and you just want to say "where's the money".

You aren't doing anything wrong, it's just hard.

You cannot have what you want when you put energy into the things you don't want