And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, June 9, 2023
Studies for the Transfiguration, Raphael
Wouldn't it be something to be able to pick up a pencil and scratch out something like this?
"Wouldn't it be something to be able to pick up a pencil and scratch out something like this?" ======= You can. Anybody can. But you have to want to. Most people don't really want to though, they'd rather do something else. shrug
I picked up a pencil when I was 4 and have rarely laid it back down in the 64 years since. Most of the initial stages of my daily livelihood are conducted with pencils and pens, markers and brushes. Supposedly takes 10,000 hours to get comfortable, then it's 2nd nature after that. It's like everything else, you get better the more you do it. It doesn't require "talent" but rather "perseverance". Never give up. Ever.
Not everybody can. It's not a matter of "want to". I can't pick up a pencil and draw anything. It's not "in me". I've tried, believe me, I've tried and I want to - it's not there. But I can write and I've been writing since I was able to put two words together on paper. We all have different talents and abilities. It's up to us to develop the raw product that God has given us.
Light and shadow.
ReplyDelete"Wouldn't it be something to be able to pick up a pencil and scratch out something like this?"
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You can. Anybody can. But you have to want to.
Most people don't really want to though, they'd rather do something else. shrug
I picked up a pencil when I was 4 and have rarely laid it back down in the 64 years since. Most of the initial stages of my daily livelihood are conducted with pencils and pens, markers and brushes. Supposedly takes 10,000 hours to get comfortable, then it's 2nd nature after that. It's like everything else, you get better the more you do it. It doesn't require "talent" but rather "perseverance". Never give up. Ever.
I picked up the trumpet when I was 8. Start young and PRACTICE.
DeleteNot everybody can. It's not a matter of "want to". I can't pick up a pencil and draw anything. It's not "in me". I've tried, believe me, I've tried and I want to - it's not there. But I can write and I've been writing since I was able to put two words together on paper. We all have different talents and abilities. It's up to us to develop the raw product that God has given us.
ReplyDeleteI can barely draw a stick man. As to putting two words together: Does F... Y.. count?
ReplyDeleteNo insult intended.
Evil Franklin
Anon728 - No that doesn’t count. No offense taken.
ReplyDeleteNo. That doesn’t count. No offense taken.
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