We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
Today I will rise above my fears and distress; emancipated by creativity and my own imaginations. With my heads up, I look at the road ahead motivated by my vision and passion to get there.
Real artists ship.
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. 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 lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.
Always move towards pain when making art.
Nothing is impossible, just hard or difficult.
Every generation is a caution tale for the next one.
Think for yourself and question authority.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.