You have to name it to claim it
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
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 reward aside.
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
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 crop.
The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness. ” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.
When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.