Jo Myers-Walker:
It's hard to believe in yourself because society—arts are frills, so it's hard to believe in that when making a living and having a nice house, da-da-da, is what society tells us is the thing to do. But to find fulfillment, you need to go with your passion and your heart.

I think God puts all kinds of things in our life to teach us and make us bigger people, and we need that training if we're going to be artists, because we're storytellers of life.

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Priscilla Kepner Sage:
My sister was very close in age, so we were very connected. I was always the one that was the artist. She was a teacher and she loved working with young children, and she was very talented doing that. She had a stroke, and she lost the use of the right side of her body, and she lost her language.

The year after she had her stroke, she was going to come with her husband to the lake. And I thought, she can't talk—but I don't talk all day when I'm doing my artwork; I make my artwork, and you don't need to talk to do this. So we took lots of art supplies. And she started to draw with her left hand—I mean, you know, she was right-handed, so she had to do this. But she's very determined. Anyway, she started to draw, and while she died shortly afterwards, she did the most wonderful drawings. So, at the end of her life, that visual creativity that was really part of her came out.

Carol Prusa:
I would say that my work is spiritual, but not in the sense that some people might mean. And it goes beyond just being a smart idea, because I don't really like smart ideas. So sometimes I think it's sort of a gift that some part of my mind came up with something that supports my language side of my mind in a way that I don't quite understand, but I know is important. I could never verbally describe my work, because it's visual. And I have a knowledge of its importance in a way that I couldn't describe.