Anna Alice Chapin

Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin

"Does a bird need to theorise about building its nest, or boast of it when built? All good work is essentially done that way-without hesitation, without difficulty, without boasting.... And now, returning to the broader question, what these arts and labours of life have to teach us of its mystery, this is the first of their lessons-that the more beautiful the art, the more it is essentially the work of people who ... are striving for the fulfilment of a law, and the grasp of a loveliness, which they have not yet attained....