There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience..

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form..

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's ow….

Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to….

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving rew….

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion..

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have d….

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission..

Artists have no choice but to express their lives..

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another..

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God..

The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical veri….

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control..

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation..

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it ar….

I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside..

I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own..

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume tha….

I have no home but me..

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the….

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside li….