Mr. Rooster - Courage

That is my theme today. It is Wednesday, and my first art show is Saturday, albeit it a very small show, it is my FIRST!!!!!

"Courage always starts out by feeling like fear. Fear is an invitation for us to respond with belief in ourselves." (John Paul)

This quote really doesn't make me feel any better, "The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself." (Pauline Kael)

There is a part of me, deep down, that was hoping that this outside show would be rained out. It would have been easier. The weather is forecasted to be beautiful, so I am swallowing my fear and praying for courage.

One quote that struck me as being exceptionally true was the statement by Matisse that "creativity takes courage". It takes courage to be an artist - to create a piece of art that will inevitably be judged by others. It takes courage to suggest that a painting can be an impression of a scene, rather than a perfect reproduction of the scene. It takes courage to create entirely new forms of painting as Pollock and Johns and others did. These artists have the courage of their vision to create their art. We in business need to learn from their example. We need to have the courage of creativity. Many people think that courage is the ability to face some terrible threat, such as a solider in wartime. Simple courage is much more basic than that - the ability to create an idea that differs from the status quo, or to follow a passion, even in the face of possible skepticism from your friends and colleagues.

“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
---Georgia O’Keefe