“Maybe in the end, art and life are more like the world’s largest ball of paint. You carefully choose your colours, and then you add your layer as best you can, and then eventually, it gets painted over. It gets painted again and again until there is no visible remnant of your layer of paint, and really no one knows about it, except for you and maybe a few people close to you to whom you told the story. But that doesn’t mean your layer of paint is irrelevant, because it permanently, if slightly, changed the larger sphere.”