Seizing reality, stopping time, capturing details |
Truth in Words
Vincent Van Gogh
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'My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing,
scribbling things whenever they happen.' |
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'My sketch-book shows that I try to catch things in the
act.' |
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'Now, if you can forgive someone for immersing himself in pictures,
perhaps you will also grant that the love of books is as sacred as that of
Rembrandt, indeed, I believe that the two complement each other.' |
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'A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.' |
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'If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has
at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.' |
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'Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's
soul.' |
Oscar Wilde
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'I never travel without my notebook. One always needs sensational
exciting to read on the train.' |
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'Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has
known.' |
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'Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.' |
Ernest Hemingway
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'My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best
and simplest way.' |
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'There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.' |
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'There is no friend as loyal as a book.' |
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'You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this
notebook and this pencil.' |
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'There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and
perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with
charges.' |
Pablo Picasso
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'Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.' |
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'I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it.' |
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'I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.' |
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'Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ' |
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'Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.' |
Luis Sepúlveda
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'Sat down on a wine barrel, in front of the sea, in some
port of the south of the world, I am scribbling some notes on a genuine
moleskine, a piece of art that Bruce [Chatwin] gave to me for this
travel...' |
Bruce Chatwin
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'Losing my passport was the least of my worries, losing a
notebook was a catastrophe'. |
Henry Matisse
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'There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative
painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to
forget all the roses that were ever painted.' |
 Moleskine
- A simple black rectangle with lined, squared, or blank pages, held by an
elastic band, an inside pocket for loose sheets, a binding in 'moleskine'
which gives it its name, this trusty pocket-size traveling companion guarded
notes, stories, thoughts and impressions before they turned into the pages of
beloved books. |
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