"There is no single style.
"Those days are gone, though honestly I wonder if those days ever existed. Even historical styles were based on travels, cultures combining, practicality, needs. Maybe we were always meshing styles, and these new morphed visions aren't new at all!"
–– Leanne Ford (b. 1981), American interior designer
Source: Leanne Ford. The Slow Down. New York: Abrams, 2024; p. 137.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, p. 8.
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."
–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist
Source: Betty Edwards. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. New York: Tarcher Perigree, 2012, p. xv.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, 2025, p. 11.
"The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken."
–– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
Source: Wendy Wood. Good Habits, Bad Habits. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019; p. 20.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, 2025, p. 13.
"To keep the spirit of childhood within oneself for the whole of one's life means retaining
the curiosity of knowing
the pleasure of understanding
the desire to communicate."
–– Bruno Munari (1907-1998), Italian artist and designer
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, 2025, p. 14.
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
–– Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American writer
Source: Shigehiro Oishi. Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life. New York: Double Day, 2025; p. 43.
via: Sketchbook M 13 2024, 2025, p. 16.
"Whatever you think can't be done, somebody will come along and do it."
–– Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), American jazz pianist and composer
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2009, p. 175.
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
–– Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician and poet
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2008, p. 140.
