But if you want to be an artist, I know quite a bit, and you have so much to learn that I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Good luck, when opportunities come, grab them. Embrace the initial illusion before you start after the next. All you're doing in creating a path, all that you create are no more than bread crumbs you leave in your trail to remind yourself of where you've been. The reward for enduring pain is happiness and the price of happiness is pain.
Reason is very small part of the universe.
I've found it more effective to make small steady gains than giant leaps that are unstable. A big vision and great ideals require a lot of patience. This is a world of people. History is the record of individual accomplishment. If you want to participate in it, choose your battles and battlefields carefully, we can only take so many wounds.