Quotes: Werner Herzog

"Our inability and lack of desire to seek fresh imagery means we are surrounded by worn out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. I sense that something dangerous is emerging. Just as a person without memory will struggle to survive in this world, so will someone who lacks images that reflect his inner state." 

–– Werner Herzog (b. 1942), German film director, screenwriter, author, and actor 

via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 93. 

Quotes: Ellen Dissanayake

"My own opinion is that we are neglecting at our peril what neuroscience has revealed are "right hemisphere" functions (paying attention to our surroundings, empathy, intuition, metaphor, emotional expression, aesthetic decisions and appreciation, and so forth – aspects of the arts that we have no words for because the right hemisphere lacks "propositional" or "rational" language). We have made a world that requires "left hemisphere" skills (analysis, detachment, sequential argument) in order to survive."

 –– Ellen Dissanayake, American author, lecturer, independent scholar 

Source: Melanie Falick. Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live. New York: Artisan (a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc.), 2019; p. 25. 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook I 2019-2020, 2020, p. 28.