Collaboration doesn’t work when you hang on to your vision as if it’s what God is waiting to hear and learn from. But a good collaboration is when you are willing to sacrifice and throw your own view out for something that’s more exciting, more cohesive, or more interesting. (Alan Arkin)

Everything has its beauty but not everybody sees it. (Confucius)

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Take a rest; a field that has rested gives beautiful crops. (Ovid)

I am always doing things I can’t do; that’s how I get to do them.(Pablo Picasso)

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. (Henri Matisse)

The greatest carver does the least cutting.(Tao Te Ching)

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
(Beverly Sills)