Source: Louise Penny. Bury Your Dead, London, UK: Sphere, 2010, p. 230.
via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 124
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Source: Louise Penny. Bury Your Dead, London, UK: Sphere, 2010, p. 230.
via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 124
"We also maintain –– again with perfect truth –– that mystery is more important than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination."
–– Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947), English author and poet
via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 114
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
–– Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and statesman
via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 114
"I called [Bob Dylan]. ... I said, "I am totally wigged out and I don't know what I am supposed to be doing, and I've got a lot of pressure to incorporate what's going on." He said, "Go back to your roots. Take out the albums that you loved and play those songs. Get your band together and rehearse those songs, and then you will start writing." And that's what I did."
–– Sheryl Crow (b. 1962), American musician, singer, songwriter, actress
Source: Rolling Stone, October 31, 2002
via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 111
"Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life."
–– Twyla Tharp (b. 1941), American dancer, choreographer, and writer
via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 104
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer
via Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 69