With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience. . . to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them. . . Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine. . . when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.
As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verballyanalytically and visuallyspatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.
As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.