I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
It is a joy to be choked with thought.
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.