The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.