"To master an art requires time,
the understanding of and sensitivity
for the materials necessary,
and extreme patience while
the basic skills are being learned.
It includes the willingness to experiment,
to fail, to risk,
to know frustration and even despair
before one can abandon learned,
parroted techniques and
project oneself fully
in self-creation.

To be an artist of life
requires no less."
L. Buscaglia