From Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey:
Talk is a privilege and one must deny oneself that privilege.
– Martha Graham
“The very first time I met her I asked her if she would have lunch with me,” the Life photographer Nina Leen once recalled. “She told me she was writing a book and there was no hope of a lunch for several years.”
– on Margaret Bourke-White
From Agnes Martin, “What We Do Not See If We Do Not See”, Writings:
I suggest to artists that you take every opportunity of being alone, that you give up having pets and unnecessary companions.
