Ammad Azeem

“Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.”
― Maurice Chevalier, Bravo Maurice!: A compilation from the autobiographical writings of Maurice Chevalier

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams

“Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.”
― Amy Neftzger