tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-696412436295712154.post3831575009898109166..comments2024-03-28T11:46:44.374-07:00Comments on RETIREMENT MEMOIRS: An Artist's Vocation is to be RespectedRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07353695791008715393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-696412436295712154.post-66632583206718766492010-04-22T11:12:23.793-07:002010-04-22T11:12:23.793-07:00Your comment, not surprisingly, Ron, is, I think, ...Your comment, not surprisingly, Ron, is, I think, reflective of a Christian attitude that we are not to (except temporarily) detach ourselves from humanity and its trials.<br /><br />Graphic artists have accomplished great things in spite of--or because of--being acquainted with the evil and vexing sides of life. So have poets. I am reminded of Longfellow's appreciation of the kind of poet "who through long days of labor and nights devoid of ease, still heard in his soul the music of wonderful melodies."TedHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729347182661976164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-696412436295712154.post-763336689314737522010-04-11T05:36:48.095-07:002010-04-11T05:36:48.095-07:00Great article. Incentive to paint what needs to be...Great article. Incentive to paint what needs to be said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com