When I saw Joel Meyerowitz recently, I told him how much I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "" I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism. "" The first time I told these stories, a man in the audience raised his hand and said, "" All these artists talk about their work, not their art, which has got me thinking about my work and where the creativity is there, and I'm not an artist. "" He's right. We all wrestle with experience and challenge, limits and loss.