Endlessly and persistently. That is the only difference between an artist and a shoemaker. When the shoemaker has done his pair of boots, it is over, he forgets about them. When an artist finishes a piece of work, it is not done. It is just another step. All the steps dovetail one into the other.
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Richard Boleslavsky
Richard Boleslavsky
William Sulinski
on 05 Aug 13As true of a poor artist as a poor shoemaker, I suppose. The shoemaker that aspires to make great shoes dreams every night of ways to make them better.
An example of tailors as artists: http://menoftheclothfilm.com/trailer/
Travis Jeffery
on 05 Aug 13@William, certainly. The sentiment’s what matters.
David Andersen
on 05 Aug 13The shoemaker ships.
Lee
on 05 Aug 13I’d have to side with the shoemaker in this scenario.
Travis Jeffery
on 05 Aug 13@David, Picasso often painted three canvases a day. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. This doesn’t matter. What’s important is the relationship between people and the things they produce.
Bill McNeely
on 05 Aug 13I think Steve Blank is in agreement with you http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveblank/2013/03/29/entrepreneurship-is-an-art-not-a-job/
Modern Marketeur
on 05 Aug 13I feel the same open-ended completion for everything I create!
David Andersen
on 09 Aug 13@Travis – I’m 99% tongue-in-cheek; I get the point the author is making, but like a lot of aphorisms that attempt to condense the universe in a paragraph it can be read in many ways. And there are, in fact, artists who never ship anything.
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