Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Thought for the Day: Ongoing Struggle to Find and Tell Truth as Heart of Artistic Endeavor

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), p. 409.