From my small knowledge of Picasso, Otto, it’s my understanding that he lived to paint. He LOVED making stuff, and, yes, created every day. I think he was a man very much in touch with his passions: creating & women. So, yes, if he had to wait for his wife, he probably picked up the brush or the pencil & would work on something.
MJB: I specifically chose Picasso to example because of his incredible creative output. But did he produce every day? What lit the creative spark? The quiet times when many people doodle? (What kinds of doodles did he do? Surely his doodles were what we now call masterworks!) Did he create great stuff when he was otherwise waiting do something interesting, like sitting around waiting for his wife to get ready to go to the beach.
I loved the discussion of history in today's forum (and also enjoyed today's strip). I'm grateful that as a kid we traveled every summer and I got to visit places that I'd studied about and suddenly they came alive --- I read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer after visiting Hannibal, MO and going on a tour of Mark Twain cave. I'd tried reading them before, but didn't get it.
Soleil, I loved that anecdote. Recently, I visited Springfield, Illinois, which is Lincolnville, U.S.A., and had a bit of the same feeling: walking into rooms where Abraham Lincoln walked, standing in his study & his bedroom, picturing him in his law office, sprawled on a sofa, driving his partner, William Herndon, crazy by reading the newspaper aloud.
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Otto, my all accounts, Picasso was never bored. He lived to create. For about fifty years, he burst with ideas.
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H.P.D., I wouldn't, if i were you, concern yourself with the Donkey's criticism. Evans is a talented cartoonist, and the Donkey has little of substance to say.
I just noticed that my first comment got 2 TD already! I have always been an artist (more or less) of many gendre, and this was one of the ways I expressed myself in the early 50's - sorry if you don't understand :-(
DannyDonkey; Yesterday's comment by you -- "frankly, Evans can't draw to save his neck." has me wondering ... how about some specifics? Went through this with XENON months ago. Please give me a clearer understanding of Evans inability to draw because that is a pretty strong statement.
Very funny strip today. Excellent illustration of irony. I got most of my best ideas about everything while waiting to learn something interesting. For instance, I designed the iPhone. In 1980. Maybe we should all have an hour a day with no expectations and a notepad. But how do we guarantee that creativity will kick in? Does this mean that Picasso was usually bored?
