A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
Mind your own business.
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.
I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.
