"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.
"It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are."
–– Marion Woodman (1928-2018), Canadian psychoanalyst and writer
Source: Oliver Burkeman. Meditations for Mortals. Toronto: Allen Lane/Penguin Random House Canada, 2024; p. v.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 33.
"[Diane Baker] Mason is finally living her dream. She has made time to write. To do anything less than that would be a living nightmare, a waste of time for a sober, thinner Mason who finds herself driven by fear. Not the mundane fears of success or failure, but "the fear of being mundane. Of living your whole life and not having tried.""
–– Paul Lima, Canadian writer
Source: Paul Lima. "Dreaming of Fat City." The Globe and Mail. Saturday October 13, 2001 (p. D16-17); p. D17. Re: Toronto writer Diane Baker Mason's debut novel Last Summer at Barebones.
via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.
"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try."
–– Yoda the Jedi Warrior to Luke Skywalker.
Source: Star Wars.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 6.
