In music the present is extended.
Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.