"Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I don't create I don't feel alive."
–– Joni Mitchell (b. 1943), Canadian singer-songwriter and painter.
Source: Elizabeth Renzetti. 'Britney Spears finally gets to sing a song of freedom, if she wants to.' The Globe and Mail, Saturday November 20, 2021, p. O2.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2021, p. 24.
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
–– Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), British clergyman, historian, and writer
via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 89
"Life has an inside as well as an outside. Consumer culture directs all resources and attention to life on the outside. What happens to the inner life? Art is never a luxury because it stimulates and responds to the inner life. We are badly out of balance. I don't think of art/creativity as a substitute for anything else. I see it as a powerful expression of our humanity –– and on the side of humanity under threat. If we say art is a luxury, we might as well say that being human is a luxury."
–– Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959), British author
via: Sketchbook 20, 2012, p. 65
