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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