The great joy of being an artist and being able to make work is
often so good that its meaning cannot be easily explained. I find this to be one of my most difficult
tasks when teaching young art students; the prolonged and consistent
fulfillment in a life lived in the creative act. I have found two things that contribute most
to the difficulty. One is that living as
an artist is and will always be extremely hard work and requires a tremendous
amount of self-discipline. Hard work and
discipline is often seen by students as things to avoid. Secondly, most students have never
experienced great life joy and so the little pleasures they have experienced
parade in their fancies as great. It is
hard to convince them that most of these counterfeits must be rejected or put
away in order to experience true and lasting vocational life joy.
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