I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister — anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my m… - Willa Cather

Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole — so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.