Words from past seasons.

“I arrived thinking I needed a residency. I left having remembered what my work was actually about.”

“It is the rarest thing — a place shaped by taste rather than ambition. Nothing is performed. Everything is considered.”

“The château does not feel like a program. It feels like a private house that happens to love artists. That is precisely its gift.”

“A month at Art Elfouly gave me two years of thinking. I have not stopped writing since.”

“The mornings were mine, entirely. I have never worked with that kind of concentration anywhere else.”

“Dinner at that long table was the most useful critique I have received in a decade.”