Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Whitman

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.