He should be smiling. Very nice job. You, sir, are a master at our craft.
Thanks for the compliment but I would not go quite that far
I am often humbled by the likes of the Joe Diaz, Dan Antonelli and the Swatzky's of the world and can only aspire to reach the level of these guys.
Instead I strive for a balance of business and art meeting somewhere in the middle. What I do hope for is to perhaps inspire the new guys and point them in a direction by my examples that they can raise the level of their own work and possibly make better money from their work, and also improve the visual landscape at the same time. If I can do it, so can everyone else. I do what I do because I enjoy pushing myself. So can others.