For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity. — Daniel H. Pink

---

Every step is like chess—the wrong move gets you killed. – Nipsey Hussle

---

Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger. ― Keanu Reeves

---

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

---

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

---

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ― Alfred Tennyson

---

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

---

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

---

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. ― Émile Zola

---

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

---