Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being sceptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is.
From Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser, from point 8 – Doubt is better than Certainty.
I’ve never thought of Art School having the “Ayn Rand model”
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Brokinnglish said, “Great Lecture by Milton Glaser on drawing being a fundamental part of recognizing the world around us. Great lecture!”
Whatever work you do when you are procrastinating from other things is probably what you should be doing for the rest of your life.
#212 Remember that most fairytales were written by men. Some of the greatest writers of children’s fables were male: The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, even Walt Disney. You are not a tiny princess awaiting rescue by a valiant man, a symbol of frailty and naïveté, or the punch line in a morality tale. The women in those stories were crafted by a different sex at a different time for a different audience; these days you slay the dragon yourself.
