“Do you call yourself an artist?” “Yes.” “How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life.” “Is that what being an artist means – selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely finding. I thought it means the contrary from ‘I know it, I have found it.’ When I say I am an artist, I only mean.”

“Do you call yourself an artist?” “Yes.” “How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life.” “Is that what being an artist means – selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely finding. I thought it means the contrary from ‘I know it, I have found it.’ When I say I am an artist, I only mean.”

— Irving Stone