Ruth Whitman Quotes & Sayings

Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own. — Ruth Whitman

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise. — Ruth Whitman

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation. — Ruth Whitman