"I've always believed you need space to disengage in order to be creative."
–– Nate Berkus (b. 1971), American interior designer and TV host
Source: Caitlin Flemming and Julie Grebel. Sense of Place: Design Inspired by Where We Live." New York: Abrams, 2023; p. 85.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, 2025, p. 13.
"The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say ... What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing ... the thing that might be worth saying."
–– Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher
Source: Nitch, Instagram, September 20, 2024.
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 26.
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
–– Tracee Ellis Ross (b. 1972), American actress, singer, producer, and television host
"In the most successful spaces, you don't see everything at once. The more time you spend in them, the more you discover. They open up like flowers."
–– Vicente Wolfe (born in the 1950s), Cuban-born American interior designer
via: Sketchbook 28, 2015, p. 12.
"In the best times of my life I always think I am making room, even more room in me. Here I shovel away snow, there I raise aloft a piece of fallen sky; there are superfluous lakes, I let them run out (I save the fish), overgrown forests, I drive crowds of apes into them, everything is astir, but there's never enough room, I never ask why, I never feel why, I just have to keep making room, on and on, and as long as I can do so, I merit my life."
–– Elias Canetti (1905-1994), Bulgarian-born novelist
via: Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 11
"A sacred space is any space that is set apart from the usual context of life. ... You really don't have a sacred space, a rescue land, until you find somewhere to be that's not a wasteland, some field of action where there is a spring of ambrosia –– a joy that comes from inside, not something external that puts joy into you –– a place that lets you experience your own will and your own intention."
–– Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), American author and professor
via Sketchbook 6, 2008, p. 121.
