When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He3 had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lamppost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “It’s so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it.
A creative impulse. A feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.
As we know Van Gogh went on to create many beautiful things of art. During his life he made $109 dollars. He had a terribly hard life but it was one of the happiest and greatest lives ever lived.
When was the last time you had a creative impluse…did you act on it?
A friend of mine Aaron Rusch recommended the book where I got this little history on Van Gogh. If you get a chance pick it up. This whole post was stolen from her writing….read it, it fun full of spirit
If You Want To Write by Brenda Ueland
One event that I wish would never happen is the baby seal hunt. I signed this petiton and I hope you will also. Hard to imagine wearing baby seal fur to a party let alone be one of the club wielding hunters. Pretty grusome stuff. Yet I am sure they need to earn a living but maybe a trade school? Not a funny subject but it takes around 5 seconds to sign the petition
The whole world reacted with horror to 2006′s images of ice floes bloodied with the carcasses of hundreds of thousands of baby seals whose skins have been ripped from their backs. Unless caring individuals speak out and demand the seal hunt’s end, that gruesome scene will be repeated again later this month.