The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
Interpretation
Writing allows for personal expression and a sense of freedom despite external constraints.
This quote reflects the deep connection between a writer's life and their craft, emphasizing that the act of writing is not just a profession but a means of personal expression and fulfillment. Despite the pressures and constraints of daily life and work, writing provides a unique sense of ownership and freedom, making it a valuable pursuit that the writer would not exchange for any other lifestyle.
In practice
In a speech about the value of creativity in life.
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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