Inspiration for Artists and Writers and All Creative People

From the excellent blog, "The Improvised Life," here's a story of artist Carmen Herrera at 101 years of age.  She sold her first painting at 89!

http://www.improvisedlife.com/2014/10/27/aging-creating-constant-continual-process/

My favorite line is her response to the question, "When did you start to have confidence in your work?"

She says:

It all began in Paris in the late ’40s. I was then involved with the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. I recall its director, Fredo Sidès, saying to me, ‘‘Madame, you have many beautiful paintings in this one work.’’ I thought about it and decided that he was right! So I started taking things out. And I have never stopped doing that.