"The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times."
–– David Lynch (1946-2025), American filmmaker, visual artist, musician and actor
Source: Austin Kleon newsletter, January 24, 2025
via: Sketchbook K 11, 2025, p. 45.
"And this is what we tend to forget: In the careers of certain artists, those who make big, varied bodies of work in which different strands of their experience are subsumed, the business of beginning, and beginning again, never ceases. Each new beginning brings with it all the uncertainty and blankness of the first. Experience might protect such an artist from forcing what's clearly not working, but that core anxiety of not knowing if one will create again always remains. "Do not worry," Hemingway would console himself, "you have always written before and you will write now."
–– Aatish Taseer (b. 1980), British-born American writer and journalist
Source: Aatish Taseer. 'The First Stroke.' New York Times T Style Magazine, Sunday April 21, 2024, p. 53.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook L 2024, p. 15.
