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

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

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

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 knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

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