“A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places.”

-Paul Gardner

“A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.”

-Rembrandt

“Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.”

-Mark Spitz

“The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”

-Michelangelo

“There are no rules for good photographs. There are only good photographs.”

-Ansel Adams

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

-Salvador Dali

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”

-Andy Warhol

“I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”

-Claude Monet

“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle!”

-Sanya Richards-Ross

“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”

-Georgia O’Keeffe

“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”

-Jackson Pollock

“Luck is the residue of design.”

-Branch Rickey

“if they said, ‘do 5 pull ups,’ I would always want to do 10.”

-Simone Biles

“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.”

-Pablo Picasso

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

-Pablo Picasso

“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

-Salvador Dali

“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

-Larry Bird

“I’m not interested in second place. I race to win.”

-AJ Foyt

“To be the man, you have to beat the man.”

-Ric Flair

“Normality is a paved road: it is comfortable to walk on but no flowers grow on it.”

-Vincent van Gogh

“Ask me for my shirt off my back. I’ll give it to you. Tell me. Not a chance.”

-Roddy Piper

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

-Vince Lombardi

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

-Pablo Picasso

“The first songs that you love and your parents hate is the beginning of the soundtrack of your life.”

-John Waters

“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.”

-Babe Ruth