Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.