Quotes: Chuck Close

"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work." 

–– Chuck Close (1940-2021), American visual artist 

Source: Adam Alter. Anatomy of a Breakthrough. Toronto: Simon & Shuster, 2023; p. xix.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2023, p. 25. 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Source: Nitch, Instagram, April 15, 2023 

via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 25.

Quotes: James Murphy

"The best way to complain is to make things."* 

–– James Murphy (b. 1970), American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, record producer

Source: Grace Bonney, ed. In the Company of Women. 2016.Tina Roth Eisenberg interview, p. 287. *Tina Roth Eisenberg's favourite quote. 

via: Anvil Sketchbook, 2018, p. 60.

Quotes: Emily Adams Bode Aujila

"We like this idea that instead of buying things for the home, you make them. Eventually you build your entire world."

 

–– Emily Adams Bode Aujila (b. 1989), American clothing designer 

Source: Vogue Living Australia, May/June 2022, p. 61. 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 118.