"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

Leonardo da Vinci

"It’s simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you’ve got something."

Jasper Johns

"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

Albert Einstein

"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."

Salvador Dalí

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream."

Paulo Cuelho