Inspiration From Balzac

As the company preps for Cousin Bette rehearsals to begin next weekend, a few words of inspiration on the artistic process from Balzac:

“Constant labour is the law of art as well as the law of life, for art is the creative activity of the mind. And so great artists, true poets, do not wait for either commissions or clients; they create today, tomorrow, ceaselessly. And there results a habit of toil, a perpetual consciousness of the difficulties, that keeps them in a state of marriage with the Muse, and her creative forces.”