Quotes: Johannes Jacobus (Koos) Groenewald

"Just start. Try more things, think later. Be less precious. Make things that aren't going anywhere. Read more. Look away every now and then. Adventures and experiences outside of the studio make more interesting and relatable work." 

–– Johannes Jacobus (Koos) Groenewald, South African graphic designer and illustrator 

Source: House and Leisure South Africa, Autumn 2025, Digest/Studio visits, Koooooos, p. 230.

via: Sketchbook U 21, 2025, p. 9. 

Quotes: Ausma Zehanat Khan

    "It was her father who had taught her that intuition was a gift of memory. Of pieces of past and present experiences melding together to warn the body of things the mind failed to remember. She needed to heed that inner voice."

–– Ausma Zehanat Khan, Canadian-American writer 

Source: Ausma Zehanat Khan. Blood Betrayal. New York: Minotaur Books, 2023; p. 198.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 38.