Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that.

There's no effort which is not beautiful--lifting a heavy stone or loving you.

Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.