These are among my personal favorites. Please share yours.

o “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas (left)

o “What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” Eugene Delacroix

o “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.” Thomas Edison

o “All points are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei

o “Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.” Andre Gide

o “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci

o “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

o “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

o “It’s a pity one can’t imagine what one can’s compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” Vladimir Nabokov

o “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

o “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” Linus Pauling

o “Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words” ‘Ye must have faith.’” Max Planck

o “The real voyage id discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

o “Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look.” Jonas Salk

o “A life making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw