Quotes: Barbara Hepworth

"I rarely draw what I see –– I draw what I feel in my body." 

–– Barbara Hepworth (1903- 1975), British sculptor 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 h, 2019, p. 32. 

Quotes: Lido Pimienta

"There's a discipline that comes out of repetition and patience. You really have to have patience and then things will make sense. If you just do something, and you don't put a lot of effort into it, then you're going to have to justify it. And, to me, that is the worst thing for the artist, to have to justify something.

When you see a work of art, when you hear any composition, you have to feel something. You don't necessarily have to think the same thing the artist was thinking about when they were making the work, but you definitely have to think something that relates to the feeling that the artist had when they were making the work."

–– Lido Pimienta (b. 1986), Colombian-Canadian singer, producer, and visual artist 

via: The Creative Independent

Quotes: Joni Mitchell

"I always look for the driving wheel of the feel of a piece of music. Sometimes that wheel finds me."

–– Joni Mitchell (b. 1943), Canadian singer-songwriter and painter.

via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 33. 

Quotes: Robert Hughes

"What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in ten seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks into something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media." 

–– Robert Hughes (1938-2012), Australian writer and art critic 

via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 81