TITLE: "I Live In Air Filled With Images..."
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: July 31, 2016 10:19 AM
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Leonard Baskin waved his arms around his head:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 I tell you honestly that I do not live in <B>air</B>.
 I live in air filled with images, waiting, waiting.
 And they are mad at me because I don't make them.
 This is not a fantasy.  It is real, I assure you.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

I know a few programmers who feel the same way about code.
I have periods of such immediacy myself.

This is one of those double-edged phenomena, though.  Many
people would like to find some goal or activity that so
enlivens their world, but they also do not want it to
drive them to endless distraction.  Fortunately, when we
get deep into creating a new something, the swirl goes
away for a while.

(This passage comes from
<A HREF="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1872819.Conversations_With_Artists">
   Conversations with Artists</A>,
which I have now quoted a few times.  I promise not to type
the entire book into my blog.)
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