It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.