{"id":8107,"date":"2013-10-31T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2013-10-31T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T22:33:18","slug":"on-the-subject-of-craft-art-and-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"On the subject of craft, art, practice and mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A rich noble commissioned a famous artist to paint him a picture of a crane.<br \/>\nThe artist agreed, though he set a rather steep price, even for one as rich as this noble.<br \/>\nThe artist asked his patron to return in a month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After a month, the noble returned to the house of the artist.<br \/>\nThe artist told the patron that he needs a higher price;<br \/>\nand the painting would take another month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so this went on for 6 months.<br \/>\nThe price ever rising and delivery put off for another month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Finally on the seventh month:<br \/>\nThe artist asked the noble to sit down,<br \/>\nand said, \u201cJust a moment, please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The artist unrolled a piece of paper.<br \/>\nIt was blank.<br \/>\nThe artist dipped his brush into freshly ground ink,<br \/>\nand before the nobleman\u2019s very eyes,<br \/>\ncompleted his painting of the crane.<br \/>\nIt was undeniably beautiful.<br \/>\nIt captured living crane essence,<br \/>\nwith only a few delicate brushstrokes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The noble, rather than being pleased, roared angrily,<br \/>\n\u201cHow can you expect me to wait for seven months?<br \/>\nAnd pay so much?<br \/>\nFor something that took you only a few minutes to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The artist calmly walked over to a nearby cupboard and opened it<br \/>\nto reveal hundreds and hundreds of studies of cranes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/crane_painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8109\" title=\"crane_painting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/crane_painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/crane_painting.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/crane_painting-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/crane_painting-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich noble commissioned a famous artist to paint him a picture of a crane. The artist agreed, though he set a rather steep price, even for one as rich as this noble. The artist asked his patron to return in a month. After a month, the noble returned to the house of the artist. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}