Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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.