Ananda Comaraswany, “An artist is not a special kind of man, but all men are a special kind of artist.”
John Ruskin, “Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”
Every man is a type of artist, so add something of beauty to your industry, because it is within us all to do so. If you don’t add beauty, industry becomes wretched and soul consuming. But it can also be soul feeding and bring life meaning and purpose. The hinge between these two worlds is the art the man of industry brings to the work — his own artistic touch. This extra effort is his expression of the joy he finds in his work.
The risk he takes is to expose his heart. Today we call the person who has abandoned this fear of exposure an artist. But the truth is that all people can be an artist if they add beauty to what they set their hands to do. Add beauty to your industry — it will mean the difference between your job consuming you or exciting you.
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