Valuable lessons at the Chelsea studio

Even so I managed to learn some valuable lessons at the Chelsea studio [working for Nahum Tschacbasov]. For one, I resolved never to become embittered by the lack of success or not making it. I would live inside the work, inside the working as my way of life. If I was to receive any gain from the work—awards, praise or money—it would be a by-product. Gravy. If there was no response, so be it. An attitude hard to maintain in such a pressured, competitive system. But looking back, I believe I’ve managed to do that for more than sixty years. Vera Klement