It is ultimately character that underwrites art.
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.
the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
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.