Katherine Anne Porter Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980
Birthday: May 15
Death: September 18
Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.
source: Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi
topic: Art, Giving Up, Real, Natural Things, Monastic Life, Real Artists
