The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived..

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it..

Humility is the daughter of truth..

Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea whe….

When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if i….

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

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

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….

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….

I have no home but me..

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….

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

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

Artists have no choice but to express their lives..

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

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….

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….

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

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