art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
One writes not by will but by surrender.