Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality

Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from that motive force, the majority of our epoch’s cultural production aiming to render the market maximally known — its profitably proven preferences, its self-interests, its moral fashions — in order to cater the creation to it, to virtue-signal enough to go viral. In every era, there are those who do what they do from a place of exuberant creative vitality unconcerned with validation, those who refuse to mistake the condi...