"If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders. " --Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother
And this, from Monet, expresses what art has become for me:
"Thanks to my work, everything's going well" --Claude Monet