I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.