When you’re a little kid and you love drawing and you spend time at it and it’s like play… But another little kid sees your drawing and says that’s terrible... And you look at your work and look at other little kids’ work and you say My God he’s right... And your parents don’t want you to spend time with art and they discourage you from doing it... And you sing a song and someone laughs at you because you didn’t come from a musical family and your singing isn’t quite on pitch... And your parents push you to study and to spend time only with “serious” subjects... And you turn 17 and take up photography and your parents are ok with it because they don’t think of it as art... So you start producing art with your camera... But you get a safe degree and a safe job... And you turn 28 and realize you have music inside you and you learn to play an instrument... And you move into your 50s and 60s and remember how much fun drawing and painting were when you were a kid and so you draw and paint again even though you don’t have the dexterity you once did... And you spend as much with your art - photography, music, drawing, and painting - as you do with your day job... That’s the power of art.