Man differs more from man than man from beast
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.
I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.
The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?
Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.