"There is no purpose to purpose." -- Michael Gerber That quote sounds pretty strange, doesn't it? Isn't purpose what all the "gurus" tell us we need to discover? A popular book title is, "Find your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team." (Whew! Whatever happened to nice, short titles like "The Sun Also Rises?") Gerber clarifies his quote … [Read more...]
The last Renaissance Man?
A "polymath" is a person whose expertise spans many domains - or subject areas. Leonardo was a polymath. He lived during the Renaissance, so Leonardo is the quintessential "Renaissance Man." Leonardo's interests spanned a lot of domains. Everyone knows of his paintings. He was a sculptor, an anatomist, a scientist, an engineer, and a producer of stage events. It wasn't … [Read more...]
The principles of mastery
I was listening to my audiobook this morning on Creativity. The author interviewed many creative people from many disciplines. He said that creativity could not occur without first mastering the domain in which the creative person works. In other words, unless you know your subject, you cannot add to it. It's the same thing with painting. You can't master the discipline of … [Read more...]
The forest
He lost his mother at fourteen. For as long as he could remember he would hear her coughing at two or three o'clock in the morning. It was a loud hacking cough followed by a gagging sound as she coughed up phlegm spotted with blood. She had tuberculosis, but the family was too poor for any treatment that could save her. Through it all, she kept their modest home clean and … [Read more...]
A message from Bill
We thought it would be fun to go into our archives and reprint some of the articles from Bill's "Fire In" Magazine. Today's piece comes from before "Fire In" was a magazine. It's from the Alexander Art Club Newsletter. Bill wrote the segment called "Sketches." --------------- What a beautiful day it is! The sun is shining, and the grass is still wet with the morning dew. … [Read more...]
A master’s words
"It is an acknowledged fact, that we perceive errors in the works of others more readily than in our own." -- Leonardo da Vinci Is this an accurate statement? For master artists - maybe. How about the rest of us? I don't know about you, but the only thing I see in my work are mistakes. There seems to be no worse critic than ourselves. I suspect that Leonardo's treatise was … [Read more...]
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