The Questions are Also Made of God
We are not just made by God. We are made of God.
— Mother Julian of Norwich
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If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
— Henry Moore
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Anyway I preferred to be alone when I listened to Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen or La Traviata. Certain clips excited me so much that I couldn’t sit still in the chair; I had to get up and spin around the dining room, mentally singing to the voices on the radio, hugging and pinching my elbows. Tears in my eyes. There were fantasies boiling inside me that were quickly forming.
— Alice Munro, “Women’s Life”.
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As an artist, I’ve learned to trust that my work goes where it’s needed. Maybe not where I wanted it to go, but always where it was needed.
— Janis Ian
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I can’t yet know what drives me to deal with the subjects of my narrative work. I have no pre-established critical-analytical sense. I just imagine a character and I try to see where this character, following its course, will take me. I don’t try to frame it, but to follow it even if it’s down dark paths. I first start by imagining a character…
