“Inspiration is for amateurs--the rest of us just show up and get to work. - Chuck Close”

“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”

“Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.”

“The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)”

“The inspiring, guiding words we learn as children continue to sustain us as adults.”