The Dance Is The Mother Of All

Parenthood Is Not An Object Of Appetite Or Even Desire. It Is An Object Of Will. There Is No Appetite For Parenthood; There Is Only A Purpose Or Intention Of Parenthood.

Like Other Revolutionaries I Can Thank God For The Reactionaries. They Clarify The Issue.

The Sociability Of Artists Is A Paradoxical And Precarious Thing, And Ceases The Instant They Begin Their Actual Artistic Work.

There Is No Truer And More Abiding Happiness Than The Knowledge That One Is Free To Go On Doing, Day By Day, The Best Work One Can Do, ... , And That This Work Is Absorbed By A Steady Market And Thus Supports One's Own Life ... Perfect Freedom Is Reserved For The Man Who Lives By His Own Work And In That Work Does What He Wants To Do.

As A Child Growing Up Among Artists I Learned To Think Of A Picture Not As A Finished Product Exposed For The Admiration Of The Virtuosi, But As The Visible Record, Lying About The House, Of An Attempt To Solve A Definite Problem In Painting.