Nicholas Kampouris

Transparency breeds incredible trust.

Curiosity is a muscle.

While death is often something that is difficult to think about, we can cheat it through making art, because when we are not here, our art will be.

We get caught up a lot with trends and following trends, and its not necessarily like trends are bad, but when I think about what'll happen when I'm not here, and what I'll leave behind, its my images, its my work. If I follow trends I don't know what that says about me when I'm not here anymore.

But what I can tell you is that, for me, in my experience, the best work I've made is honest work, and the best portraits I've made come from a place of love.

If I am in a compassionate relationship with you, it doesn't help me to figure out how we're different. It only helps me to figure out how to reconcile our differences to find our sameness, so I can support you in that sameness, and lift you up.

Do not burn bridges, just loosen the bolts a little each day.

Roadblocks only block the road — they do not block the grass, the path, the river or the way less traveled.

You cannot live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself, so learn from the bad judgement of other people.

Do not take yourself too seriously, no one else does.

If I’m willing to explore those other points of view, I’ll have a better sense of who I am and a better ability to find the path.