KEYWORDS	Conversation with Tracey Hendel November 27, 1995 8:15pm Present is always better than past. The past is the past. Present is now happening. Even if your art is better in past, shouldn’t regress to that good art, should make gooder art. Learn from your mistakes. The lily comes from the garbage heap. Great idea can come from six or seven really awful ones. Shakespeare said, “If everyone liked all the stuff you did, you never made enough.” You not a bad artist, you go through crappy stages, the crappy stages yield the best art sometimes.	RELATED WRITINGS