For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

There's an interesting quality because the grids kind of put the figure in the background, but that same solid background color showing through in other little spots of the work almost makes the subject come forward.

Acting to me is always reacting.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.