ThomasPowers Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 I believe I got that from Lois Macmaster's Bujold's Miles series as part of some parenting advice and decided to use it in my parenting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 The more I get done, the more I find needs done… ~ Goods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Take care of your tools and they will take care of you. JmShrader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 A self-taught man has an apt student, but a fool for a teacher. ~ Purple Bullet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 There are no dangerous tools... only dangerous fools. Purple Bullet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 Or as we say in my line of work, “Not asking is worse than a No. Not asking means you’ve deprived someone of an opportunity to say Yes.” JHCC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Diorama courtesy of JHCC Keep in mind, indecision is the key to flexibility. ~ Courtesy of Ted Ewert Sometimes there's a fine line between humor and a clinical concern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Without instability there is NO maneuverability. From flight manuals and aircraft design reading I did decades ago. I actually toyed with designing and building my own hang glider, of course. Learning to fly one cured that ambition. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 There are lots of things out in the world that I am HAPPY to have other people design and build; I'm not so arrogant as to asssume I can improve *everything*! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Knowing I probably can't or won't try to improve everything doesn't keep me from thinking about it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcostello Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Knowing when to stop improving and just call it done is also a gift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Unfortunately you can't make anything fool proof, fools are too inventive. ~ Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 “The very command of means leads to their abuse: when Art struggles it succeeds; when reveling in its own successes, it as signally fails.” -- Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Ahh, Artists are *supposed* to be starving? I know of artists on both sides of that line and while self indulgent does seem to side more on the $$$ side there are still some good artists that are on that side too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I don't think Jones is speaking economically, but artistically. In other words, he is cautioning against artistic complacency and advocating for continual struggle to improve one's aesthetic perception and artisanal skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I don't know about that, seeing a great work done at the height of a master's powers is not always less than one where an artist is struggling with a new mode. However I will agree that complacency is the enemy of great art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Yes, but I think Jones's point is twofold: that the master achieved mastery through struggle, and that the master *remains* a master because they *continue* to struggle. In other words, a work by a master who has become complacent may be technically brilliant, but aesthetically uninteresting. Similarly, I've been to performances by virtuoso musicians who were clearly just going through the motions. Their technique was amazing, but the music was utterly boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I wonder what effect shorter lifespans would play into that. 19th century could be quite grim that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I was just reading this morning that the great Dutch painter Hendrik ter Brugghen died when he was only 41. To borrow from Tom Lehrer (and adjusting for my own age): "It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It's a sobering thought, for example, that, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for eighteen years." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Going on 30 in my case; but on the other hand; he got started earlier too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzkill Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 https://youtu.be/qzucWnQpfZY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Thank you for that I feel so much more *alive* now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Gee THANKS! The rabbit holes leading off that video are insidious! Weird Al to scam baiting to I don't now what. I should've started younger. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Vincent van Gogh: ear today, gone tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 One positive thing about being an aging smith---my students are trying to make sure I don't overdo things and so try to do the loading and unloading and moving heavy stuff for me. (You have 1 insulin crash and ER visit and folks start treating you like you're feeble and frail---I should have had one *years* ago!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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