Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

New York Studio School on 8th Street in Manhattan.

There’s a wonderful freedom in not having to prove anything.

The freedom of disregard.

old people are happier and more trusting than the youth. You learn that all that upheaval that used to distress you really isn’t such a big deal after all. Just let it go.

contented concentration

race, which wasn’t invented until the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

or

How do you tell what art is “interesting”? It looks like art. What is art? Art is what’s in galleries. Now you know.

You have to make a lot of work, she said, because 85 percent of what artists make is junk.