There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.