humility

"The definition of an educated person is knowing how little they know."
- Socrates [469 BC - 399 BC]

Mice: 

What is the best early training for a writer?

Y.C.: 

An unhappy childhood.

Hemingway writing as "Your Correspondent," abbreviated as "Y.C." "Mice" is the nickname by which Y.C. addresses a young writer.

"Now I as a painter shall never amount to anything important, I am absolutely sure of it."

- Vincent van Gogh

individuality

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

sounds reasonable

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

terribilita

"He doesn't say, 'I want you to recognize this man.' Instead he says, 'I want you to recognize yourself - through yourself all mankind.'"

- Michelangelo's Apollo and Pathos: The Human Form 

crocodile

"I've always done fashion stuff if asked to...I like the girls, I like the extreme beauty. It always amazes me that I've been criticized for photographing both wildlife and beautiful women, because there is a thread between them: Beautiful women will be the last thing left in nature that's worthy of worship."
- Peter Beard [born 1938]