Quotes: Napoleon Bonaparte

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

–– Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French military officer and statesman 

via: Sketchbook Q 17, 2024, p. 9.

Quotes: Yumi Sakugawa

"Most of the time the universe speaks to us very quietly in pockets of silence, in coincidences, in nature, in forgotten memories, in the shape of clouds, in moments of solitude, in small tugs at our hearts." 

–– Yumi Sakugawa (b. 1985), American interdisciplinary artist

via: Sketchbook L 2024, p. 2.

Quotes: Tom Blachford

"It has been a reminder that creative practice and creative flow often come from listening to your very quietest impulses and running with them." 

–– Tom Blachford (b.1987), Australian photographer 

Source: Aleesha Callahan. "Future Image Maker." Habitus June-September 2023, Issue 57, p. 45.

Quotes: Albert Einstein

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind." 

–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 150.

Quotes: Virginia Woolf

"Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck in between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent." 

–– Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English writer, critic, & publisher 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 62.

Quotes: Rūmī

"Don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 134

Quotes 94: Franz Kafka

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." 

–– Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Bohemian-born writer

via Book of Commonplace 2004-2005, p. 86