Quotable Mondays: be motivated by Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

Quotable Mondays: be motivated by Picasso

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. 

Pablo Picasso

Quotable Mondays: be inspired by Emerson

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotable Mondays: be motivated by Monet

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever.  Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Claude Monet, as quoted by Lilla Cabot Perry, c. 1889