You have to be willing to suffer to achieve something great.
"The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism."
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
The canvas is a mirror, reflecting not just the artist's soul but the soul of society.
Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.