Quotes from Drusilla Modjeska

He certainly didn't understand the conflict a woman might experience juggling the call of the lover and the call of the easel. To say nothing of the call of the baby.

It is in he nature of love, and in the nature of art, to be complex, disturbing, taxing.

When it comes to a subject like love and art, or daily life and the great work, there are no answers, no conclusions, only conversations, meditations -- and the shining work.

she lets us see, she lets us think, she lets us feel, that we can get to a position where we do not have to struggle, we do not have to choose, and that there are ways of being in the world that allow us, in the same breath, to live in our domestic ordinariness and still create.

This, they say, is the condition of the woman as artist. Woman? Lover? Mother? Artist? The distinctions are false. A woman is all of these, and reduced to none. To be an artist is not a matter of surmounting, or refusing, or even of juggling, but of bringing the values and knowledge of heart and belly into the work, into the image, into the paint.

It's as if, from the vantage point of a verandah bed, that great expanse of sky rolls in over us from the very edge of existence.