Humility is the daughter of truth.

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

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

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.

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.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.