Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.
Value choices are intuitive. . . It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.
Disrespect cannot be commanded, it must be earned.