Aleksi

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close, Chuck Close

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people”
― Christopher Walken