Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer;  since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment ... Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen. 

(Leonardo da Vinci)

I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way — things that I had no words for.  (Georgia O’Keeffe)

“Ecstasy” is the accurate term for the level of intensity of consciousness which occurs in the creative art ... It involves acting as a total person, with subconscious and unconscious levels acting in some form of unity with conscious levels.  (Rollo May)

I am still learning.  (Michelangelo)

Computers are useless.  They only give you answers.  (Pablo Picasso)

Every child is an artist.   The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.  (Picasso)

And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.  (Grandma Moses)

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.  Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.  (Wolfgang Amadeous Mozart)

Must it be?  It must be!  (Ludwig Van Beethoven)

All you need is love, all you need is love, all you need is love, love, love is all you need. 

(John Lennon)

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh — at yourself.  (Ethel Barrymore)

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile. (Samuel Goldwyn)

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.  (Walt Disney)

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look a it right. 

(Jerry Garcia)

He studies a single blade of grass.  But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, then the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure.  So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.  (Vincent Van Gogh)

The best way to know God is to love many things. (Vincent van Gogh)

Without deviation, progress is not possible. (Frank Zappa)

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.    (Bill Cosby)

Don’t you ever consider giving up — you’ll do fine.  (Ace of Base)

I can measure my life by the moments when art transformed me.... (Juleo Mateo)

Not by a battle of skills; but by will.  (Isaih Thomas)

Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path...and walking it.  (Morpheus [Matrix])

Choice, the problem is choice.  (Neo [Matrix])

I only need to find the gift that the universe set me up with and then use that gift for other people along their spiritual path, that is what love seems like to me. Love seems like lifting others up so that they can see their true potential here on earth and then find that joy and then share that love and excitement with those that have not found it yet. (Karen)

Inspiration is for me that mysterious state in which the entire world seems to form a vast harmony, when every sentiment, every thought re-echoes within me, when my whole body shivers and my hair stands on end. (Beethoven).