The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa CatherA pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
Willa Cather[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.
Willa Cather