“Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.”

Susan Sontag

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks”

Herodotus

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

David Lloyd George

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

Gail Sheehy

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

Anonymous

“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”

Akira Kurosawa

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

Robert F. Kennedy

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein

“Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter, you don’t know anything.”

Vincent van Gogh

“So long as one can live and pursue his natural vocation in art, it is a duty with him never to abandon it if he believes that he has within him the elements of final success. Every time he labors at aught that is not art, he robs the divinity of what belongs to her.” Lafcadio Hearn