Friction Life is not all good. Anyone who tells you differently is either a moron or a liar. But there is beauty in those agonies, just as there is beauty in happiness and fulfillment. Art is dirty roads and parking meters, hospital robes and city scapes, broken bottles and happy homes. Art is angry, cynical, sexual, contradictory and hilarious.
Art is human.
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