Quotes: Frida Kahlo

"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."

–– Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter 

Source: Nitch, Instagram, October 5, 2024. 

via: Sketchbook  O #15, 2024, p. 7.

Quotes: Nan Goldin

"My work changes as I change. I feel an artist's work has to change, otherwise you become a replication of yourself." 

–– Nan Goldin (b. 1953), American photographer and activist 

Source: Female Poets Society, Instagram, October 7, 2024. 

via: Sketchbook 0 15, 2024, p. 7. 

Quotes: Herman Melville

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." 

–– Herman Melville (1819-1891) American novelist, best known for his novel Moby-Dick 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2013, p. 60. 

Quotes: Rebecca Solnit

"A major illness or injury is a rupture that invites you to rethink, to restart, to review what matters. It's a reminder that your time is finite and not to be wasted, and in breaking you from the past it offers the possibility of starting fresh."

–– Rebecca Solnit (b. 1961), American author 

Source: Rebecca Solnit. The Faraway Nearby. New York: Viking, 2013; p. 137-8. 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 79. 

Quotes: Leo Tolstoy

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." 

–– Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 112. 

Quotes: Rahm Emanuel

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." 

–– Rahm Emanuel (b. 1959), American politician and diplomat, President Obama's chief of staff

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2013, p. 21. 

Quotes: William James

"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits."

–– William James (1842-1910), American psychologist and philosopher 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2013, p. 11.