Quotes 372: Marcel Proust

"The voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

–– Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer and critic  

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 22

Quotes 371: T.S. Eliot

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

 –– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 21

Quotes 370: Barbara Kingsolver

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is to live inside that hope." 

–– Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955), American novelist, essayist, and poet 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 20 

Quotes 369: Gaston Bachelard

"The surest sign of wonder is exaggeration." 

–– Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), French philosopher 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 18

Quotes 368: Alice Walker

"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise." 

–– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American writer and activist 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 16 

Quotes 367: Nido Qubein

"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret." 

–– Nido Qubein (b. 1948), American Lebanese-Jordanian businessperson 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 14

Quotes 366: Kahlil Gibran

"The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul." 

–– Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American writer and poet 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 13

Quotes 365: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 11

Quotes 364: Werner Karl Heisenberg

"Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created." 

–– Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976), German theoretical physicist 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 10

Quotes 363: Thomas Moore

"Anything so difficult to accept must have a special kind of shadow in it, a germ of creativity shrouded in a veil of repulsion."

–– Thomas Moore (b. 1940), American writer, psychotherapist, and former monk 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 7

Quotes 362: Hafiz

"God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open."

–– Hafiz (1315-1390), Persian poet 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010,  p. 2

Quotes 361: Jane Goodall

"It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us."

–– Jane Goodall (b. 1934), English primatologist and anthropologist 

Quotes 360: bell hooks

"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."

–– bell hooks, pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), American writer, academic, & activist 

via Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 134

Quotes 359: Joan Didion

"I'm not telling you to make the world better. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment." 

–– Joan Didion (1934-2021), American writer 

via Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 135

Quotes 358: Betty Shayer

"Don't let your epitaph read: She died without causing a scene." 

–– Betty Shayer, San Francisco Breast Cancer Activist 

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 149

Quotes 357: Nellie McClung

"Don't apologize; don't explain; just get it done and let them howl." 

–– Nellie McClung (1873-1951), Canadian writer, social activist, politician, and suffragette 

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 149 

Quotes 356: Théodore Géricault

"Although obstacles and difficulties frighten ordinary people, they are the necessary food of genius. They cause it to mature, and raise it up ... All that obstructs the path of genius inspires a state of feverish agitation, upsetting and overturning those obstacles, and producing masterpieces." 

–– Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French painter

via Sketchbook 10, 2010. p. 147

Quotes 355: John Cage

"What I really believe, is perfectly clear by my actions. Since a mistake is beside the point, an error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a conception to actuality."

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 136 

Quotes 354: Henri Bergson

"Disorder is merely the order you were not looking for." 

–– Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 136

Quotes 353: Leonard Koren

"Repetition is ... the essence of tradition." 

–– Leonard Koren (b. 1948), American artist, writer, and aesthetics expert

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 120

Quotes 352: Pablo Picasso

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious." 

–– Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist 

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 119

Quotes 351: Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

–– Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), American Baptist minister and civil rights activist

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 49

Quotes 350: Roberta Smith

"What's missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand." 

–– Roberta Smith (b. 1948), American art critic 

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 13

Quotes 349: Henry Miller

"Whoever uses the spirit that is in them creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal." 

–– Henry Miller (1891-1980), American writer

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 13

Quotes 348: John Cage

"Complicate your garden so it's surprising, like uncultivated land." 

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 12

Quotes 347: Salvador Dalí

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary, rationalize them, understand them thoroughly." 

–– Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Spanish artist 

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 11

Quotes 346: Daniel Boorstin

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance –– it is the illusion of knowledge." 

–– Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004), American historian and writer 

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 8

Quotes 345: Mike Perry

"We act as culture sponges. We manipulate flows. We consume, digest, percolate, blend, filter, make, tweak, and re-present our own work." 

–– Mike Perry, American artist and writer 

via Sketchbook 9, 2010, p. 140

Quotes 344: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 "Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via Sketchbook 9, 2010, p. 132

Quotes 343: Twyla Tharp

"Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable." 

–– Twyla Tharp (b. 1941), American dancer, choreographer, and writer 

via Sketchbook 9, 2010, p. 119

Quotes 342: Mike Monteiro

"Let's make better mistakes tomorrow." 

–– Mike Monteiro, American designer and writer 

via Sketchbook 9, 2010, p. 98