Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

A woman in her eighties is a sage. She is dignity and wisdom. She inspires the world. She has gravitas. She is elegant.

or

You can be the greatest artist in the world, but if the eyes that matter aren’t on your work, and if the people who count don’t speak up for you, you hardly exist beyond your own local circle.

contented concentration

Thomas Hirschhorn

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.

New Museum—

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

the wet blanket of professionalism