Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
