A true artist is always a servant of beauty.
The individual's biography is shaped by the historical and social context in which it is embedded.
The artist must be a wanderer of the infinite.
What you actually pay for something is at least twice the listed price because of the energy, time, money needed to set it up, learn, maintain, repair, and dispose of at the end. Not all prices appear on labels. Actual costs are 2x listed prices.