If you know exactly what you’re going to do, what’s the use of doing it?

What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.  

Pablo Picasso

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.  You can keep your sterile truths for yourself.    

Vilfredo Pareto

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

Henri Matisse

All you have to do is write one true sentence.  Write the truest sentence that you know.    

Ernest Hemingway

One day Toulouse-Lautrec cried, “At last I don’t know how to draw.”    

Henri Matisse

A painting is finished when the idea is obliterated.    

Georges Braque