Compose first, worry later.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
In music the present is extended.
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.