"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he's never expected."
–– Tove Jansson (1914-2001), Finnish writer, artist, painter
Source: Beata Heuman. Every Room Should Sing. New York: Rizzoli, 2021; p. 55.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 56.
"We are buried underneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness."
–– Tom Waits (b. 1949), American musician, composer, singer-songwriter, actor
Source: Tom Waits. True Confessions. 2008.
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 4.
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
–– Augustine of Hippo (354-430), North African Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and saint
Source: Thomas King. Double Eagle. 2023. p. 32
"The person you will be in five years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with.
–– unknown
Source: Flo and Frank, Instagram
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 19.
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
–– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), American politician, U.S. president, architect, philosopher and lawyer
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 13.
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
–– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), British writer
Source: Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p. 3.
"What we remember about rooms is the atmosphere, the mood. Unless rooms are personal, they have none of this."
–– Billy Baldwin (1903-1983), American Interior Designer
Source: Beata Heuman. Every Room Should Sing. New York: Rizzoli, 2021; p. 156.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 56.
"Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want."
–– Doris Lessing (1919-2013), British-Zimbabwean novelist
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p.1.
"In the fields, she stopped and took a deep breath of the flower-scented air. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. And for a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to absorb its wild enchantment."
–– Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), Russian poet and writer
Source: Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago quoted in Art Propelled 2016.
via: Striped notebook 2016–present, p. 1.
"We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us it to go unimagined."
–– N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934), Kiowa American writer.
"All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others."
–– Cher (b. 1946), American singer and actress
"There are two types of tired, I suppose. One is a dire need of sleep, the other is a dire need of peace."
–– Anonymous
"If we go for the easy way, we never change."
–– Marina Abramović (b. 1946), Serbian conceptual and performance artist
"Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life."
–– Yoko Ono (b.1933), Japanese peace activist, performance artist, multimedia artist, singer and songwriter
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
–– Tracee Ellis Ross (b. 1972), American actress, singer, producer, and television host
Joel and Helena [Haran] "dreamed up the idea for their first furniture collection while on holiday in Greece ("because you get the best ideas when your mind is free," Joel says)."
"That's where being perfectionist comes in – and the need to balance it with the more relaxed pace of outdoor life and the Cornish landscape. They work on one farm, live on another, and spend as much time on the beach as they can. "You need time and space," Joel says, "because when you're stressed, you can't be creative. You stick with the first idea rather than exploring other options."
–– Joel Haran, UK designer
Source: Modern Rustic UK 06, p. 81.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2021, p. 20-21.
"I always think of style as something that's the difference between what you want something to look like, and what your hand and brain make it look like unintentionally. And there's quite a gap there, and there's some interesting stuff in that gap."
–– Daniel Clowes (b. 1961), American cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter
Source: Austin Kleon, January 15, 2020.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2022, p. 27.
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. So that's my wish... Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art or love, or work or family or live. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
–– Neil Gaiman (b. 1960), British author and screenwriter
Source: Nitch, December 24, 2019.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2022, p. 26.
"Imagination – the muscle of the soul."
–– Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian, Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2022, p. 25.
"Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself."
–– Oscar de la Renta (1932-2014), Dominican-born American fashion designer
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2021, p. 24.
"Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I don't create I don't feel alive."
–– Joni Mitchell (b. 1943), Canadian singer-songwriter and painter.
Source: Elizabeth Renzetti. 'Britney Spears finally gets to sing a song of freedom, if she wants to.' The Globe and Mail, Saturday November 20, 2021, p. O2.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2021, p. 24.
"The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it."
–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist
Source: Nitch, Instagram, April 15, 2023
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 25.
