"Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization."
–– Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American writer, quote from August 10, 2004
Source: Austin Kleon newsletter, Friday April 11, 2025
via: Sketchbook U 21, 2025, p. 11.
"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.
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
–– Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American writer
via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 144.
"Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
–– Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American writer
via Sketchbook 17, 2012, 91
