As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.