This is Agnes de Mille conversing with the great dancer Martha Graham:
> “But,” I said, “when I see my work I take for granted what other people value in it. I see only its ineptitude, inorganic flaws, and crudities. I am not pleased or satisfied.”
> “No artist is pleased.”
> “But then there is no satisfaction?”
> “No satisfaction whatever at any time,” she cried out passionately. “There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
https://austinkleon.com/2021/10/04/a-blessed-unrest/
This is Agnes de Mille conversing with the great dancer Martha Graham:
> “But,” I said, “when I see my work I take for granted what other people value in it. I see only its ineptitude, inorganic flaws, and crudities. I am not pleased or satisfied.”
> “No artist is pleased.”
> “But then there is no satisfaction?”
> “No satisfaction whatever at any time,” she cried out passionately. “There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”