The Crowded Hours

The best-performing artists learn they must create a very special, very sacred place - known as their art studio. It may be a painting studio, music studio, clay or sculpture studio. Mainly, it is an environment created to get control of the world, of time, of the day. It is a way to gain precious space during the Crowded Hours of Life.

James Gordon Gilkey is quoted in Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook (page 49):

What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time.
That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The Crowded Hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file.

The art studio lines up events into a single file and gives peace during the Crowded Hours.

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When School Isn't Enough

Thota Vaikuntham, a 62-year-old artist celebrated in India is a good example of the school-trained artist who knew he had to go further.

As he finished his program at the College of Fine Arts in Hyderabad, he and his fellow students realized it wasn't enough.

‘In art college we learnt many techniques but they were all western. We realised that there was not much creativity in emulating western techniques and one had to explore what our country had to offer. So I returned to my village and soon found my inspiration.’’

Such is the path of many artists world-wide. It's really found ... "back in the village." A new coffee-table book has just been released about his life ... Thota Vaikuntham—The Man and His Women. Good luck with the rest of your creative life, Thota!!