“Success is the child of audacity.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Finding your voice means getting your hands, your eyes, your heart, and your mind in alignment with your work.”

Cay Lang, Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist

“Courting approval, even that of peers, puts a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the audience.”

Art and Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland

“The people I like to paint are “my people,” whoever they may be, wherever they may exist, the people through whom dignity of life is manifest….”

Robert Henri

The only road to authenticity lies through what has already been done. There is no deep art without deep historical awareness.

Robert Hughes

“The beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by the means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, created, moulded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is necessary to work very continuously and valiantly, and never apologetically. In fact, to be ever on the job so that we may find ourselves there, brush in hand, when the great moment does arrive.”

The Art Spirit, Robert Henri

“Draw, Antonio. Draw Antonio. Draw and do not waste time.”

Michelangelo

“Lines are a human invention: they are intellectual constructs to impose order, such as in a line of thought, or a line of flight. In the visual world, lines are generally a shorthand for edges.”

Design Language, Tim McCreight

“To get something you’ve never had you have to do something you’ve never done.”

Abigail Neri