“‘A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day,’ Orson Welles once told Peter Bogdanovich. ‘We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.’ Remember those words the next time you see someone basking in the sunshine of a standing ovation. What looks to you like a polite formality might just be the only thing capable of giving him the courage to pick up his pen tomorrow morning and face the music all over again…”
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
