Quotes: Barbara Hemphill

"Clutter is postponed decisions." 

–– Barbara Hemphill, American organizational expert 

Source: Elle Decoration UK, May 2016, p. 95. 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 122.

Quotes: Elizabeth Bishop

"Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music ... some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? 

–– Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet and short-story writer 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 112.

Quotes: Nora Ephron

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." 

–– Nora Ephron (1941-2012), American journalist, writer, filmmaker 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 106. 

Quotes: Marie Forleo

"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently." 

–– Marie Forleo (b. 1975), American entrepreneur 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2021, p. 101.

Quotes: Charlotte Brontë

"I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give." 

–– Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English writer 

Source: Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre, published 1847.

 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 34. 

Quotes: Rūmī

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." 

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 32.  

Quotes: Lee Child

"Zeno of Cittium ... believed in going with the flow. The unquestioned acceptance of destiny. He believed in basking in the sun and eating green figs, instead of spending time and effort trying to change nature with irrigation." 

–– Lee Child, pen name of James Dover Grant (b. 1954), English writer

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 20.

Quotes: Henry Miller

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." 

–– Henry Miller (1891-1980), American writer 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 96. 

Quotes: William Kentridge

"To say that making art is a conversation or dialogue between the maker and the paper is to oversimplify –– It is a series of attractions and repulsions that may begin with intention and end with analysis but the real meaning (the truth of the work) is arrived at in the processes and moments of making." 

–– William Kentridge (b. 1955), South African artist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 105.

Quotes: Edith Sitwell

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." 

–– Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), British poet and critic 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 52. 

Quotes: Agnes Martin

"A lot of good things don't get made because of too much thinking." 

–– Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Canadian-born American abstract painter 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 104.

Quotes: Joseph Chilton Pearce

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." 

–– Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016), American author, lecturer 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 116.

Quotes: Max Planck

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." 

–– Max Planck (1858-1947), German theoretical physicist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 138. 

Quotes: Dorothy Parker

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." 

–– Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), American writer, critic and satirist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 138.

Quotes: Judd Apatow

"It's almost impossible to keep success going because you have to stop at some point, to rest and learn something new. It's essential. People's interest in you goes away so quickly, but you have no choice but to step off the boat sometimes." 

–– Judd Apatow (b. 1967), American comedian, director, producer and screenwriter 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 142. 

Quotes: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are." 

–– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), Swiss-born American psychiatrist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 142.

Quotes: Albert Einstein

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of quiet life stimulates the creative mind." 

–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 150.

Quotes: Maya Angelou

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." 

–– Maya Angelou (1928-2014), American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist 

via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 104. 

Quotes: Rūmī

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." 

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 10.

Quotes: A. A. Milne

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." 

–– A. A. Milne (1882-1956), English writer 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 116. 

Quotes: Yves Klein

"Blue has no dimensions. It is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not. All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract." 

–– Yves Klein (1928-1962), French artist 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 60.

Quotes: Shel Silverstein

Magic

Sandra's seen a leprechaun, 

Eddie touched a troll, 

Laurie danced with witches once, 

Charlie found some goblin's gold. 

Donald heard a mermaid sing, 

Susy spied an elf, 

But all the magic I have known 

I've had to make myself. 

–– Shel Silverstein (1930-1999), American writer, poet, cartoonist, songwriter, playwright 

Source: Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends. 1974, p. 11.

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 42.

Quotes: Benjamin Franklin

"Those things that hurt, instruct." 

–– Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American writer, scientist, diplomat, publisher, inventor 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2014, p. 24.

Quotes: Jacque Fresco

"Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality." 

–– Jacque Fresco (1916-2017), American futurist 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2014, p. 3.

Quotes: Susan Howe

"The relational space is the thing that's alive with something from somewhere else." 

–– Susan Howe (b. 1937), American poet and literary critic 

Source: Susan Howe. The Midnight.

via: Sketchbook 25, 2014, p. 20.

Quotes: Lyn Hejinian

"A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece." 

–– Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941), American poet, essayist, translator, publisher 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2014, p. 21. 

Quotes: George Moore

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." 

–– George Moore (1873-1958), English philosopher 

via: Sketchbook 24, 2014, p. 137.

Quotes: David Bromley

"To me, working is not just physically painting; I believe creativity is nurtured in a place where imagination soars." 

–– David Bromley (b. 1960), British-born Australian painter 

via: Sketchbook 24, 2014, p. 77.

Quotes: Bruce Mau

"Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces – what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." 

––  Bruce Mau (b. 1959), Canadian designer and educator 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 94.

Quotes: Earl Gray Stevens

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." 

–– Earl Gray Stevens 

via: Sketchbook 23, 2014, p. 134. 

Quotes: Gail Bowen

"Taylor once told me that making art allows her to see what she's been thinking all along." 

–– Gail Bowen (b. 1942), Canadian author and playwright 

Source: Gail Bowen. The Gifted. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2013, p. 89. 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 72.