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I have no home but me.

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

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

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

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

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

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

Humility is the daughter of truth.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

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

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

The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

The more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

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

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

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

The hallmark of a decision in line with one's inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.

Perhaps the human lesson is always submission. We have a choice: to rebel or to recognize our powerlessness while maintaining our faith.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

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.

vulnerability is a guardian of integrity