"Just start. Try more things, think later. Be less precious. Make things that aren't going anywhere. Read more. Look away every now and then. Adventures and experiences outside of the studio make more interesting and relatable work."
–– Johannes Jacobus (Koos) Groenewald, South African graphic designer and illustrator
Source: House and Leisure South Africa, Autumn 2025, Digest/Studio visits, Koooooos, p. 230.
via: Sketchbook U 21, 2025, p. 9.
"The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times."
–– David Lynch (1946-2025), American filmmaker, visual artist, musician and actor
Source: Austin Kleon newsletter, January 24, 2025
via: Sketchbook K 11, 2025, p. 45.
"If all you can do is crawl, start crawling."
–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet
via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 23.
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"It all falls into place. Just start cutting. Every cut reveals the next cut."
–– Chief Pal'nakwalagalls Douglas Cranmer (1927-2006), Canadian Kwakwak'wakw totem pole carver and artist
via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 20
"What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning
The end is where we start from."
–– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author
via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 55
