Ross instructed his viewers on how to paint with the motto that "you may feel hemmed in by work or by family, but before and easel you are your own master. "1 Kimmelman says Ross touched on a basic reason for making art, "to have a place to indulge your id and comfort your ego, an area of authority, where perhaps, secondarily, with luck and a little effort, you might make something good enough to have on the wall or show to strangers. "2 This belief was central to the chapter that anyone can make a masterpiece, and it can be unintentional. ... Kimmelman also quotes philosopher David Hume who ...

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