"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
— Aristotle

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
— Pablo Picasso

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."
— Danny Kaye

"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
— Barbara Kingsolver

"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Imagination is Everything!"
— Termina Ashton

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
— Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book)

"The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play,can't know serendipity unless you risk."
— Joan Erikson

"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."
— Chuck Klosterman (Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story)

"What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?"
— Alan Alda

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt