Susan Whitall

“Painting, you express it more broadly, more childlike. Here’s the basic thing: like all that a painter—a painter at best because of their juvenile qualities. The reason painters live, I think, to be quite old is because they’re children, maybe more than any of the arts, that never grew up, never put their crayons away. And the painting at best is supposed to rejuvenate a person. It’s the work of a juvenile, perennial juvenile, intended to rejuvenate. You should get a wonderful “Oooh!” It should make you want to get out your crayons, a good painting, more than anything else.”
― Susan Whitall, Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell