How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.

Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.