I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
Life is first boredom, then fear.
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.