"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again."
–– André Gide (1869-1951), French writer
"When your heart speaks, take good notes."
–– Judith Campbell, American author and Unitarian Universalist minister
"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals."
–– Henri Nouwen (1932-1996), Dutch Catholic priest, writer, theologian
via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 61.
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"It all falls into place. Just start cutting. Every cut reveals the next cut."
–– Chief Pal'nakwalagalls Douglas Cranmer (1927-2006), Canadian Kwakwak'wakw totem pole carver and artist
via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 20
"Creating is a prayer comprised entirely of listening."
–– Anne Hines, Canadian writer and minister
Quote from Anne Hines. Parting Gifts: Notes on Loss, Love, and Life. 2009, p. 62.
via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 33
"Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials."
–– Anni Albers (1899-1994), German-born American textile artist and printmaker
