At least once in your lifetime, do this:

be loved by an artist.

They say that to be loved, even once, by an artist is to be made permanent.

The saying suggests oil and canvas first… a face caught in light, a hand held mid-gesture, something fixed and framed, resisting the slow erosion of time. One imagines a painter, or perhaps a sculptor, chiseling patiently at marble until a likeness emerges …