I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.