#finding

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend! ↗

— Alan Lee

#finding-path #influences #nature #experience

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#before #chance #die #finding #how

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it! ↗

— Jill Hennessy

#just #running #sanity #saviour #time

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #burning #candle #denial #ends

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#built #companies #finding #focused #good

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. ↗

— David Byrne

#ask #finding #front #guess #i

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ↗

— George Byron

#discernment #finding #great #her #merit

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#brief period #confusing #confusion #darker #did

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. ↗

— Enzo Ferrari

#coaster #coming #dazed #downhill #each

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#else #find #finding #get #i