“set me a task in witch i can put something of my very self and it is a task no longer,it is joy;it is art.”

“Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.”

“I grow old though pleased with my memoriesThe tasks I can no longer completeAre balanced by the love of the tasks gone pastI offer no apology onlythis plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the endPlease someone cut a square and put me in a quiltThat I might keep some child warmAnd some old person with no one else to talk toWill hear my whispersAnd cuddlenear”

“And oh, Claudia, Claudilla, ask me to do something -something that I can do. Do not ask me to forget you or to be indifferent to you. Do not ask me to have no interest in how you pass your time. But if we are separated, set me a task, something that will be a daily link with you.”

“Art is the proper task of life. ”

“The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.”