Quotes: Jim Rohn

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." 

–– Jim Rohn (1930-2009), American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker

Quotes: Carl Jung

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist 

Quotes: Emily Dickinson

"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things."

–– Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet 

Quotes: Epictetus

"Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen."

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

Quotes: James Baldwin

"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, and not with its idea of you."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Quotes: Bertrand Russell

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

–– Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, and social critic 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 48.

Quotes: Alan Watts

"A thing is a think."

–– Alan Watts (1915-1973), British philosopher and writer 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 37.

Quotes: John Cage

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."

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

Source: John Cage, "Experimental Music," 1957 in Sarah Urist Green. You are an Artist, (e-book) p. 74

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 35..

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"He who knows when he has enough is wealthy."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

Source: Globe and Mail, Saturday November 14, 2020.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 34.

Quotes: Agnes Martin

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."

–– Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Canadian-born American abstract painter 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 26. 

Quotes: Ursula K. Le Guin

"I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And, if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work. Nobody ever said it was easy. What they said is: "Life is short, art is long." 

–– Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), American author 

Source: Austin Kleon, October 22, 2019.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 23. 

Quotes: Danish proverb

"God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest." 

–– Danish proverb

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 18. 

Quotes: Lynda Barry

"There are two working languages in human life. One is sort of top of the mind, what we're conscious of. The other is the unconscious stuff that we might not know about or have access to. The way we access it is usually through this thing we call 'the arts.' Unfortunately, that has gotten removed from the daily experience of human life. What I'm trying to do is to show that there is a way that they can come together, and that you can make things in a way that makes you actually feel alive and present. That's what I'm after: feeling alive in the world." 

–– Lynda Barry (b. 1956), American cartoonist, author, educator

Source: Austin Kleon, September 18, 2019

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 17. 

Quotes: Grant Cardone

"Every positive change – every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time we ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception." 

–– Grant Cardone (b. 1958), American author and entrepreneur 

Source: Art Propelled, October 16, 2019

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 15.  

Quotes: James Hillman

"We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently." 

–– James Hillman (1926-2011), American Jungian psychologist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 14.  

Quotes: Henry David Thoreau

"People are rich in proportion to the number of things they can afford to let alone."

–– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American essayist, philosopher, and poet  

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 13.  

Quotes: Socrates

"How many things there are in this world that I do not want." 

–– Socrates (470 - 399 B.C.), Greek philosopher  

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 13.  

Quotes: Tilda Swinton

"Art is good for the soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place." 

–– Tilda Swinton (b. 1960), British actress 

Source: Free Will Astrology, October 17, 2019.

 via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2019, p. 7. 

Quotes: Paul Klee

"Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual." 

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

Source: Art Propelled, October 16, 2019.

 via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 47. 

Quotes: Eugène Delacroix

"It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist." 

–– Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), French artist 

Source: Art Propelled, October 31, 2019

 via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 38. 

Quotes: Alexander Pope

"Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon." 

–– Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, satirist, and translator

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 35. 

Quotes: Barbara Hepworth

"I rarely draw what I see –– I draw what I feel in my body." 

–– Barbara Hepworth (1903- 1975), British sculptor 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 32. 

Quotes: Murrumu of Walubara

"It's just a truth that's unfamiliar to you." 

–– Murrumu of Walubara, (b. 1974) Australian Indigenous Yidindji man formerly known as Jeremy Geia, former journalist, Australian Aboriginal activist, foreign affairs minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government micronation

Source: The New York Times International Edition, World, Tuesday September 17, 2019, p. 3.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 30.

Quotes: Paul Valéry

"In small things delight is intense." 

–– Paul Valéry (1871-1945), French poet, philosopher, essayist

Source: John Berger and John Christie. I Send You This Cadmium Red.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 32.

Quotes: Dawna Markova

"I will not die an unlived life. 

I will not live in fear 

of falling or catching fire. 

I choose to inhabit my days, 

to allow my living to open me, 

to make me less afraid, 

more accessible; 

to loosen my heart 

until it becomes a wing, 

a torch, a promise. 

I choose to risk my significance, 

to live so that which came to me as seed 

goes to the next as blossom, 

and that which came to me as blossom, 

goes on as fruit." 

–– Dawna Markova, American author, teacher, psychotherapist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 17.

Quotes: W.H. Auden

"Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition."

–– W.H. Auden (1907-1973), British-born American poet 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 14. 

Quotes: Yoda the Jedi Warrior

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." 

–– Yoda the Jedi Warrior to Luke Skywalker. 

Source: Star Wars.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 6. 

Quotes: Pico Iyer

"Travel is, ultimately, about those words that begin in "trans." Transport, transcendence, and transformation. It's not the sights that send one home a different person; it's something around the sights, between the lines, a moment when one forgets oneself, that sudden serendipity not to be found on any postcard or secondhand image." 

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

Source: Pico Iyer. "Why we must see the world for ourselves, now more than ever." The Globe and Mail. Saturday August 11, 2018, p. O4.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2018 f, 2018, p. 31. 

Quotes: Gail Bowen

"Ed nodded. "My father was killed in a car accident before I was born. He was a trumpet player. When I got old enough, I used to spend hours with his old trumpet. Holding something he had held was the only way I know to bring him close.""

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

Source: Gail Bowen. A Killing Spring. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994, p. 76. 

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

Quotes: Paulus Berensohn

"Do something. Start with pleasure. Make a list of all the things that are pleasurable in your life and then make an art form out of one of them. And if you're courageous, make a list of all the things that are difficult in your life and make an art form out of one of them."

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

Source: Paulus Berensohn speaking in the film To Spring from the Hand, 2013

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