better with no money than with no respect

It’s bothering me when I read about people telling other people how to live or how to do it the right way.
What I learned for sure in this life and mostly in this business it is that there’s no better way to start, there’s no right way or wrong.
I believe everything that comes with visual arts has no sense to make it right or wrong, otherwise inspiration would be something we don’t really need.
If you have something in your mind and you wanna make it happens that way, there’s no magazine, ad agency, art director or fashion editor that would have the right to change your opinion.
I paid that point of view directly on my skin refusing jobs with the notes:
“follow what the art director or the fashion editor will suggest to you on location..”
Fuck it, better to be with no money than with no respect.