Quotes: Gerhard Richter

 "It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea."

–– Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) German visual artist 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 121.

Quotes: Linus Pauling

"If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas." 

–– Linus Pauling (1901-1994), American biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator 

Source: Commonplace Book 2013- 2014, 2014, p. 141.

Quotes: Eula Biss

"In the August humidity, I feel a rising euphoria. I recognize this as the aura that precedes the work of writing, like the aura that precedes a seizure or a migraine. An idea is hovering before me, spectral and electric. The idea is just slightly out of reach and I will spend hours at my desk before I can grasp it, before I can work it on the page." 

–– Eula Biss (b. 1977), American non-fiction writer and professor 

Source: Eula Biss. Having and Being Had. New York: Riverhead Books, 2020; p. 213.

via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 81.

Quotes: Buddha

"A idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." 

–– Buddha, formerly known as Siddhartha Gautama (623 or 563 BCE to 543 or 483 BCE), Indian philosopher and founder of Buddhism

via: Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 35. 

Quotes: Danny Gregory

"I always find that if I have that glimmer of an idea, if I have that grain of sand to put in the oyster, I'm on the way. I'm going to get to the end by having a beginning." 

–– Danny Gregory, London, UK born artist, author, teacher, and speaker 

Source: Art Propelled, September 16, 2018. 

via: Sketchbook 30, 2018, p. 91.