Quotes: Nicholas Jennings re: Neil Peart

"Mastering his instrument was always Mr. Peart's mission. He continued studying, taking drum lessons late in life from percussion legends such as Freddie Gruber, wanting to learn more improvisational playing. He never stopped practicing. "My worst fear is not having a heart attack," he said in the 2016 documentary Time Stand Still, "but that I'm going to have one on stage and wreck the show. That's what makes you a professional. You don't go on stage with your frailties. Or your regrets or your resentments. Every night, you have to bring that commitment." 

–– Nicholas Jennings, Canadian music journalist & Neil Peart (1952-2020), Canadian drummer in the band Rush. 

Source: Jennings, Nicholas. Neil Peart, Musician, 67: "Rush's Drummer was one of the World's Best," The Globe and Mail, Saturday, January 18, 2020, p. B24. 

via: Day In and Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 40-41.

Quotes: Barbara Pym

"The smaller things of life were often so much bigger than the great things ... the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard." 

–– Barbara Pym (1913-1980), English novelist, Less Than Angels 

Source: Margot Gwalnick and Fan Winston. Remodelista: The Low Impact Home. New York: Artisan, 2022; p. 249.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2023, p. 26. 

Quotes: Jean-Luc Bannalec

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." 

–– Breton proverb 

Source: Jean-Luc Bannalec. Death in Brittany. New York: Minotaur Books, 2012. 

via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2023, p. 25. 

Quotes: Chuck Close

"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work." 

–– Chuck Close (1940-2021), American visual artist 

Source: Adam Alter. Anatomy of a Breakthrough. Toronto: Simon & Shuster, 2023; p. xix.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2023, p. 25. 

Quotes: Terry Pratchett

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." 

–– Terry Pratchett (1948-2015), English author, humorist, satirist 

Source: Kathy Reichs. Cold Cold Bones. Toronto, ON: Simon & Shuster, 2022; unpaginated.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2023, p. 24.

Quotes: David Bowie

"The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." 

–– David Bowie (1947-2016), English musician and actor

Source: Austin Kleon. Steal Like an Artist. 2012, p. 6. 

via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022, p. 13.

Quotes: Bertolt Brecht

"Crisis takes place when the old has not died and the new has still not been born." 

–– Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German poet, playwright, theatre practitioner 

Source: Nitch.com

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 39.