Quotes: Karl Lagerfeld

"You must adapt to changing times. Elegance is not what it was. Notions, concepts and visions change."

–– Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019), German fashion designer 

Source: Elle Decoration UK, April 2009, p.110

via Sketchbook 17, 2012, p. 89 

Quotes: Paul Rand

"Among the great contributions to visual thought is the invention of collage. Collage and montage permit the integration of seemingly unrelated objects or ideas in a single picture; they enable the designer to indicate simultaneous events or scenes which by more conventional methods would result in a series of isolated pictures. The complex message presented in a single picture more readily enables the spectator to focus his attention on the advertiser's message."

–– Paul Rand (1914-1996), American art director and graphic designer 

Source: Paul Rand. Paul Rand: A Designer's Art. Yale University Press, 1985; p. 137

via Sketchbook 17, 2012, p. 90

Quotes: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success." 

–– Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 20

Quotes: Pythagoras

"Limit gives form to the limitless." 

–– Pythagoras (c.570 bce –– c. 500-490 bce), Ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and founder of Pythagoreanism 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 17

Quotes: Igor Stravinsky

 "The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit."

–– Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian-born French and American composer, pianist, and conductor 

via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 15

Quotes: Louise Penny

"'Eight is a bad number. We shouldn't be doing this.'

"'What do you mean, a "bad" number?' Madeleine could feel her heart start to pound.

"'It comes right after seven,' said Jeanne, as though that explained it. 'Eight forms the infinity sign.' She gestured in the air, her finger making an invisible sign. 'The energy goes round and round. No outlet. It gets angry and frustrated, and very powerful.' She sighed. 'This doesn't feel good at all.'"

–– Louise Penny (b. 1958), Canadian writer 

Source: Louise Penny. The Cruellest Month. London, UK: Headline Publishing Group, 2007; p. 20. Text is re: a seance. 

via Sketchbook 18, 2012, p. 145

Quotes: re: Walter Benjamin

"German philosopher Walter Benjamin was an inveterate collector of books. He also tirelessly collected quotations from books in little notebooks with black covers. Quotations became the very center of his written work. They were the way he entered into the vision of another's work and listened to tradition. To Benjamin, to achieve the essential in the quotation was to bring the truth to light." 

–– Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German-born American Jewish writer and political philosopher re: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, essayist

Source: Quote from Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 58. found in Anne West. Mapping: The Intelligence of Artistic Work. 2011. p. 196. 

via: Sketchbook 18, 2012, p. 122.