Tips and qoutes from a new book..

I just found this book today called Art Making & Studio Spaces by Lynne Perrella and these were some qoutes from featured artists:

On collecting stuff -
" As we sort and re-sort and ponder how to allow ourselves just one more acquisition, we run our materials through our fingers and they talk to us." - Ellen Kochansky

" This momentof transcendence makes every collected object, be it a matchbox or a martyr's fingernail, valuable. Every collected item is , to some extent, a tutor." - Phillip Blom

On Finding Space-
From Nancy Anderson...
"Nancy happily debunks the theory that , to create, one must have a perfect space. " Give up that thought now!" she says. " The perfect space only exists in your dreams. I say : Just create! Let it happen in your basement, that less than optimal rental, your shower, your kitchen table. Just do it!" "