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The Age of Creativity (2017)
- tw1010 9y agoIf you read a headline and the body of the article is something totally different than what you expected, your attitude towards the piece starts in a really negative direction. Why would they mislead the reader into thinking it is about how now, this generation, is the time when creativity is the biggest factor for success (which "The Age of Creativity" would imply), when it really is about something else. The discrepancy between the promise of the headline and the body makes you not want to read the thing.
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- glaberficken 9y agoI didn't find it clickbaity at all. Can you think of a more appropriate title?
- maaark 9y agoThe subtitle makes it clear. >My father is a remarkable painter. And he’s done some of his best work in his eighties IDK why GP is so grouchy.
- dasil003 9y agoWhy are you so eager to read something that just confirms your existing ideas?
- tw1010 9y agoNothing in my original post should suggest I think our time is the age of creativity. I'm kind of ambivalent on the subject actually.
- danbolt 9y agoI thought the headline meant a different thing from what I read too, but the article turned out great!
- ideonexus 9y agoReminds me of something I overheard an older artist say when dealing with a difficult customer who didn't want to pay the asking price for one of her paintings. When the customer demanded, "Well how long did it take you to paint it?" The artist replied, "My whole life."
- elcapitan 9y agoI have read that anecdote multiple times with Picasso being the artist, but as he also allegedly said "Good artists copy, great artists steal." ;)
- grasshopperpurp 9y agoSpeaking of :^) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
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- dang 9y agoThe quote goes back to James Whistler when he was being cross-examined at a trial. He sued a journalist for libel who had written that he "never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face"—a pretty good line in its own right, but unfortunately for the journalist, he was up against a wit with superpowers. The exchange at trial: Lawyer: Oh, two days! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!” Whistler No;—I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime. Whistler won the trial, was awarded a farthing, and had to pay his own legal fees. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/
- the-dude 9y agoThere is a tech equivalent : https://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp https://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
- ataturk 9y agoAuthor is bad at math--says father is "in his 9th decade" but is only 82 and I have a hard time believing the guy painted starting at infancy. Other than that, if creativity were the sole metric, I'd be sitting pretty, but no, I am judged by many lesser traits such as communications skills and other things that I totally suck at.