"What is anxiety? It is the next day. With whom, then, does the pagan contend in anxiety? With himself, with a delusion, because the next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength."
–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 34.
"To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself."
–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 78.
"What I sometimes find is that if a drawing is going badly, you are blessed. There is no anxiety about messing it up. It needs to be messed up to be rescued. One either tears it into four pieces and then rearranges them, or erases with a cloth. It is kind of relying on a thinking in the material."
–– William Kentridge (b. 1955), South African artist
Source: Lisa Kokin, Instagram, March 23, 2023.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 92.
