My mother didn’t give me much advice, or attention, growing up, but once after a fight with Dad, she told me I had to seek love with just a tiniest bit of hate mixed in. “Find someone that challenges you. Pushes your buttons. Ignites your anger like no one else. Because in that frustration is passion. The artist doesn’t paint because he wants to. He paints because he has to. Even when he despises his creation. Even when he doesn’t have two pennies to rub together and art demands his last one. Even when the world tells him he’s no good. His passion for painting is obsession, and that’s what
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