Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.
I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
Even at home, I don't have pictures on the wall of jobs I've done.
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.