She also explained that "Now is the time to put the last stroke on the painting. I let myself slide all the way into it. I feel its full embrace. I stand in the most intimate fashion, in the closest possible way, at the center of my own passion. I am ecstatic. God's beauty fills me. My soul is full."Michele Cassou The Soul of Creativity, Edited by Tona Pearce Myers, 1999, pp.2-6,
