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The Age of Creativity (2017)

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Reminds 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."

I have read that anecdote multiple times with Picasso being the artist, but as he also allegedly said "Good artists copy, great artists steal." ;)

Speaking of :^)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

The 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/2018/01/12/lifetime/

There is a tech equivalent : https://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp

If 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.

I didn't find it clickbaity at all. Can you think of a more appropriate title?

The 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.

Why are you so eager to read something that just confirms your existing ideas?

Nothing in my original post should suggest I think our time is the age of creativity. I'm kind of ambivalent on the subject actually.

I thought the headline meant a different thing from what I read too, but the article turned out great!

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