"Art doesn't start out hallowed. It starts out personal: an emergency."
–– Joan Acocella (1945-2024), New Yorker staff writer and essayist
Source: Joanna Biggs. 'The Last Word.' New York Times Book Review, Sunday March 24, 2024, p. 12. Re: review of Joan Acocella. The Bloodied Nightgown And Other Essays, posthumous collection.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook L 2024, p. 13.
"What we remember about rooms is the atmosphere, the mood. Unless rooms are personal, they have none of this."
–– Billy Baldwin (1903-1983), American Interior Designer
Source: Beata Heuman. Every Room Should Sing. New York: Rizzoli, 2021; p. 156.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 56.
"Nothing, and I mean nothing, is interesting unless it is personal."
–– Billy Baldwin (1903-1983), American Interior Designer
Source: Beata Heuman. Every Room Should Sing. New York: Rizzoli, 2021; p. 13.
via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 56.
"If you can steal without getting caught, then you've pulled off the perfect crime –– which is what an artist is supposed to do. You're not meant to come up with new things as an artist; no artist would say that's what they do. It's all about taking your influences and hopefully filtering them through a personal viewpoint."
–– Chilly Gonzales, stage-name for Jason Charles Beck, (b. 1972), Canadian musician, songwriter, producer.
Source: Austin Kleon, October 2018.
via: Sketchbook 30, 2018, p. 96.
