Quotes: Paul Klee

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible."

–– Paul Klee (1879-1940), Swiss-born German artist

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 2. 

Quotes: Matt Haig

"Reading isn't important because it helps you get a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given. Reading makes the world better. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action."

–– Matt Haig (b. 1975), English author and journalist 

Source: Art Propelled December 18, 2018.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 2. 

Quotes: Robert Brault

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize that they were the big things." 

–– Robert Brault, American writer 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 f, 2018, p. 12.

Quotes: Gail Bowen

""Know the truth about the teller and you'll know the truth about the tale."" 

–– Gail Bowen (b. 1942), Canadian author and playwright 

Source: Gail Bowen. A Colder Kind of Death. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994, p. 86. 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2018, p. 6.

Quotes: Malcolm S. Forbes

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." 

–– Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990), American entrepreneur, publisher, and politician 

Source: Suzy Tanzer. 'Quote Unquote.' Surfacing Journal, Winter 2002, Volume 23, Issue 1. 

Quotes: Wayne Lesperance

"As citizens we have many rights, but we also have obligations. And when we don't fulfill our obligations, we often end up with results we don't like."

–– Wayne Lesperance, Puerto Rican-born American political-science professor at and President of New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, USA 

Source: New York Times National. Sunday July 10, 2022, p. 13. 

Quotes: Confucius

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." 

 –– Confucius (551 BCE - 479 BCE), Chinese philosopher and politician 

Quotes: Kurt Vonnegut

"I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having any shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody. I always say to people, practice an art, no matter how well or badly, because then you have the experience of becoming, and it makes your soul grow." 

–– Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American writer 

Source: New York Times Book Review, Sunday August 20, 2023, p. 24.

Quotes: Judith Campbell

"When your heart speaks, take good notes." 

–– Judith Campbell, American author and Unitarian Universalist minister

Quotes: Epictetus

"Devote the rest of your life to making progress."

–– Epictetus (50-135 A.D.), Greek stoic philosopher 

Quotes: Pico Iyer

"If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end." 

–– Pico Iyer (b. 1957) British-born novelist and essayist 

Source: Alexander Bisely. 'How far do we need to go to find paradise?' The Globe and Mail, Saturday April 29, 2023, p. P4. Quote is from Pico Iyer's 1998 essay, Why We Travel.

Quotes: Alicia Elliott

"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can't intergenerational love?"

–– Alicia Elliott (b. 1987), American-born, Canadian Tuscarora writer and editor 

Source: Review of In a Mind Spread Out on the Ground, Globe and Mail, Saturday April 6, 2019.

 via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2019, p. 37. 

Quotes: Origen of Alexandria

"The wise guard themselves from being drained by abundance." 

–– Origen of Alexandria (c. 184-253 A.D.), Egyptian theologian, ascetic, and early Christian scholar

 via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2018, p. 15. 

Quotes: Leonard Koren

"Pare down to the essence but don't remove the poetry."

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

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2019, p. 47

Quotes: Gail Bowen

"A Cree elder had told me once that the medicine wheel is a mirror that helps a person see what cannot be seen with the eyes. "Travel the four directions of the circle," she said. "Seek understanding in the four great ways." ... "A seeker must be calm and receptive." 

–– Gail Bowen (b. 1942), Canadian author and playwright 

Source: Gail Bowen. A Colder Kind of Death. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994, p. 54. 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 e, 2018, p. 5.

Quotes: Mary Oliver

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."  

–– Mary Oliver (1935-2019), American poet 

Source: Jennifer New. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art. 2005; Mary Oliver "Yes! No!" from Owls and Other Fantasies 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2018, p. 47.

Quotes: Gerhard Richter

"I do not obey any intention, system or trend; I have no program, style or pretention. I love uncertainty, infinity and permanent insecurity."

–– Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) German visual artist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2018, p. 36.

Quotes: Nicholas Wilton

"Over the years I have realized that actually my paintings are are [sic] not so much about what I end up with in the end, but surprisingly what I remove to arrive at that end. My art teaches me over and over again that in order to gain something of value I need also, to let many things go. In fact I no longer think of keeping things or giving things away as two different aspects of my art making but rather just one. This is a big part of what my art is about." 

–– Nicholas Wilton (b. 1961), American painter, teacher, and blogger 

Source: Instagram Nicholas Wilton Friday June 29, 2018

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2018, p. 35.

Quotes: Paulus Berensohn

"[Art is] not a way of making a living, it's a way of making a life." 

–– Paulus Berensohn (1933-2017), American dancer and and craftsperson (ceramics, book arts, textiles)

Source: Sandra Brownlee 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2018, p. 35.

Quotes: Sarah Addison Allen

"She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another." 

–– Sarah Addison Allen (b. 1972), American novelist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 32. 

Quotes: L. R. Knost

"Do not be dismayed by the brokeness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you." 

–– L.R. Knost, American author, activist, and magazine editor

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 26. 

Quotes: Kenneth Noland

"Being an artist is about discovering things after you've done them. Like Cézanne – after twenty years of that mountain he found out what he was doing. If it isn't a process of discovery, it shows. I'm in it for the long haul." 

–– Kenneth Noland (1924-2010), American painter 

Source: Sarah Boyts Yoder Life and Limb on Tumblr

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 24.

Quotes: Charles Wright

"It's only in darkness you can see the light, only From emptiness that things start to fill..." 

–– Charles Wright (b. 1935), American poet 

Source: Charles Wright poem "Looking Around"

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 24. 

Quotes: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The holiest of all holidays are those 

Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; 

The secret anniversaries of the heart." 

–– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet 

Source: Excerpt from 'Holidays' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 24. 

Quotes: Cecilia Borromeo

"It would not hurt that we live our lives with childlike wonder. Have you asked yourself lately: When was the last time I saw something for the first time?"

–– Cecilia Borromeo, Filipino poet 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 23. 

Quotes: Lin Yutang

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

 –– Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer and philosopher 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 23.

Quotes: Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed."

–– Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), Polish-American rabbi, Jewish theologian and philosopher

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 22. 

Quotes: Cesare Pavese

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." 

–– Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 22.

Quotes: Glennon Doyle

"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway." 

–– Glennon Doyle (b. 1976), American author and public speaker

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 21. 

Quotes: José N. Harris

"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living." 

–– José N. Harris (b. 1963), American writer and psychologist

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 21. 

Quotes: Vivienne Westwood

"Buy less, choose well, do it yourself."

–– Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022), English fashion designer and activist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook, 2017 a, p. 6.