Quotes: Duke Ellington

"There is no art without intention."

–– Duke Ellington (1899-1974), American Jazz pianist and composer 

via: Commonplace Book, 1999-2001, 2001.

Quotes: L. R. Knost

"Do not be dismayed by the brokeness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you." 

–– L.R. Knost, American author, activist, and magazine editor

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 26. 

Quotes: William Kentridge

"To say that making art is a conversation or dialogue between the maker and the paper is to oversimplify –– It is a series of attractions and repulsions that may begin with intention and end with analysis but the real meaning (the truth of the work) is arrived at in the processes and moments of making." 

–– William Kentridge (b. 1955), South African artist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 105.

Quotes: Pablo Picasso

"What you do is what counts and not what you had the intention of doing."

–– Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist 

via: Sketchbook A, 2016, p. 29