What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

It is as if Freud supplied us the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Tradition is not a prison; it is a foundation.

-- Yokoyama Taikan

Color is, so to speak, what gives the painting its blood and its life.

-- Eugène Delacroix

Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.

-- Jack Dorsey

To paint a beautiful woman I would need to see many, but since beautiful women are scarce, I make use of a certain idea that comes to my mind.

-- Raphael

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground.

-- Madam C. J. Walker

Success is not sustainable if it is defined by how big you become or by how much money you accumulate. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

-- Howard Schultz