“she had stopped painting.  when she looked at the canvases it was as if she was realizing what she had to abandon, certainly all of us, perhaps herself as well.” 

— michael ignatieff

“you know, the real world, this so-called world, is just something you put up with like everybody else.  i’m in my element when i’m a little bit out of this world: then i’m in the real world –i’m on the beam.  because when i’m falling, i’m doing alright.   when i’m slipping, i say, “hey, this is interesting”  it’s when i’m standing upright that bothers me….as a matter of fact, i’m really slipping most of the time.  i’m like a slipping glimpser.”

— willem de kooning