Quotes: Heinrich Heine

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effect with the most limited means." 

–– Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, essayist, journalist, and literary critic 

via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 37. 

Quotes: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success." 

–– Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 20

Women's quotes: Rei Kawakubo

"If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

 –– Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), Japanese fashion designer