"Hardwood grows slowly."
–– Jewel (Kilcher) (b. 1974), American singer, songwriter, poet, actress, activist, author
Source: Cal Newport. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2024; p. 170.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 79.
"Anything that slows us down is a spiritual practice."
–– Don Grayson (1939-2017), Canadian Anglican priest
Source: Lois Huey-Heck and Jim Kalnin. The Spirituality of Art. Kelowna, B.C.: Northstone Publishing, 2006.
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2008, p. 158.
"Just slow things down and it becomes more beautiful."
–– David Lynch (1946-2025), American filmmaker, visual artist, musician and actor
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2025, p. 47.
""My work is really slow and repetitive. ... You have to go through almost excruciating boredom to be spontaneous and creative, to get to a place where the work really flows." For eight hours a day he combines experience and improvisation, As he described the process to an interviewer in 2004, "It is mysterious in a mundane way.""
–– Lance Letscher (b. 1962), American collage artist and Charles Dee Mitchell
Source: Lance Letscher Collage. Introduction by Charles Dee Mitchell. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2009, p. 6.
via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 36.
"What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in ten seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks into something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media."
–– Robert Hughes (1938-2012), Australian writer and art critic
via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 81
"Even when you know exactly what you want, it's sometimes crucial for you not to accomplish it too fast. It may be that you need to mature more before you're ready to handle your success. It could be that if you got all of your heart's desire too quickly and easily, you wouldn't develop the vigorous willpower that the quest was meant to help you forge. The importance of good timing can't be underestimated either: In order for you to take full advantage of your dream-come-true, many other factors in your life have to be in place and arranged just so."
–– Rob Breszny, American astrologer, writer, and musician
Source: Rob Breszney. Free Will Astrology, Virgo January 10, 2013. View Magazine. January 10-16, 2013, p. 25.
via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 92.
"If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before."
–– Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), American photographer
