The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

-Alberto Giacomett

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done.  Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.  While they are deciding, make even more art.”

-Andy Warhol

“Tell your own story and you will be interesting.”

–Louise Bourgeois

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

-Pablo Picasso

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

-Rene Magritte

“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”

-Matt Biondi

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

-Paul Cezanne

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

-Muhammad Ali

“Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.”

-Knute Rockne

“True heroes are made of hard work and integrity.”

-Hope Solo

“A Good artist has less time than ideas.”

-Martin Kippenberger

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

-Thomas Merton

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”

-Joan Miro

“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

-Muhammad Ali

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”

-Michelangelo

“My attitude is that if you push me towards a weakness, I will turn that weakness into a strength.”

-Michael Jordan

-Pablo Picasso

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

-Jackie Robinson

“Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it.”

-Salvador Dali

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

-Muhammad Ali

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

-Marc Chagall

“In baseball and is business, there are 3 types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened?”

-Tommy Lasorda

“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.”

-Mario Andretti

“Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become, and the hours of practice, and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.”

-Mia Hamm