The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
John FowlesI knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
John FowlesIt came to meโฆthat I didnโt want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencingโฆa new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.
John Fowles