Quotes: Tyler Knott Gregson

"I find no coincidence in the fact that some of the grandest revelations in my entire life have come during periods of total isolation surrounded only by the mountains, the trees, the sea, and the light." 

–– Tyler Knott Gregson (b. 1981), American writer 

Source: Art Propelled, 2017.

Quotes: Virginia Woolf

"What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one."

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

Source: Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse. 

via: Art Alternatives knapsack sketchbook, 2017 a, p. 37.

Quotes: Cesare Pavese

"A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travellers to exotic destinations. The surest – also the quickest – way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves, is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before." 

–– Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 

Source: Dialoghi con Leuco, 1947, cited in  The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, 1992. 

via Sketchbook 12, 2010, p. 133