13 December 11
Encouraged
So long since I’ve posted here…
I am so encouraged by a post (permalink wonky, dated December 13, 2011) by Antonio Muñoz Molina whose blog I’ve been following faithfully for some months now. The part that encourages me:
… la conversación deriva a una defensa de la artesanía como saber modesto, tangible y material frente a los caprichos y a las tonterías cada vez más exagerados de lo que se llama el arte. Le digo algo que pienso hace mucho tiempo, que ahora cualquiera es artista, con solo decir que lo es: lo difícil de verdad es ser artesano.
…the conversation drifts to a defense of craft as modest, tangible and material versus the whims and increasingly exaggerated nonsense of that which is called art. I tell him [Philippe Bataillon] something I’ve thought for a long time, that everyone is an artist now, just by virtue of saying so; what is really hard is to be a craftsman. (Translation mine.)
So much of this resonates with me. Craft seems like something worth perfecting.
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I whole-heartedly concur.
So happy that you are still reading him every day – me too! I’m intrigued that you also can’t link to the blog – I thought it was Blogger’s fault that I can’t, but apparently not. Is it because of the tilde in the url?
Wonderful quote. Wonderful guy: his warm and immediate connection to people and his environment and lively, thoughtful flow of words about these indeed feel to me like a craft as well as an art. He inspires me very much.