Kate Christensen Art Quotations

With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.