Some of my favorite quotes:

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”
Agnes de Mille, American dancer-choreographer (1905-1993) 

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”
Edgar Degas, French artist (1834-1917)

“The eye should not be led to where there is nothing to see.”
Robert Henri, American painter and teacher (1865-1929)

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer and photographer (1933-)

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton, American author (1862-1937) 

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”
Janis Joplin, American rock singer (1943-1970)

“To know a little less and to understand a little more: That, it seems to me, is our greatest need”.
James Ramsey Ullman, American author (1907-1971)

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”
Claude Debussy, French composer (1862-1918)

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
John Kenneth Gal­braith, Canadian-born American economist (1908-2006)

“When love is not madness, it is not love.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist (1600-1681) 

“Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.”
Marcelene Cox, American writer

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney (1901-1966) 

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1809-1865) 

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)

“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
Nadia Boulanger , French composer and teacher (1887-1979)

“If it moves I shoot it, if it doesn’t move I shoot it.”
A O Tucker

“An Artist, someone that everyone else makes money from.”
A O Tucker

“Nature teaches us about ourselves.”
A O Tucker