“Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.” ~Jimmy Breslin
“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” ~L. Drachman
“Inspiration comes of working every day.” ~Charles Baudelaire
“There are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something.” ~Thomas Edison
“If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.” ~Billie Holiday
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~Thoreau
“Go to where the silence is and say something.” ~Amy Goodman
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~Henri Matisse
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. ” ~Pablo Picasso
“Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.” ~Philip K. Dick
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!” ~William Shakespeare
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” ~Paul Gauguin
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” ~Anatole France
“Silence is the mother of truth” ~Benjamin Disraeli
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~Thoreau
“No artist tolerates reality.” ~Nietzsche
“Who looks outside, dreams… who looks inside, awakes.” ~Carl Jung
“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.” ~Banksy
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads” ~Erica Jong