I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent that while you're creating, you feel very self-sufficient. I've certainly experienced that. — 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
