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A Tale Of Two Artists
Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 4, 2023 (message contributor)
The great Danish theologian Soren Kierkegaard told a parable of 2 artists: One bragged, “I have travelled much and seen much in the world, but I have sought in vain to find anyone worth painting. In every face I have seen one or another fault. Therefore I seek in vain.” The second one, on the other hand, said, “Well, I do not pretend to be a real artist; neither have I traveled in foreign lands. But remaining in the little of circle of people who are closest to me, I have not found a face so full of faults that I could not discern in it something glorious. Therefore I am happy in my art.” Is this not this one who is the artist, who by bringing something with him found what the other could find nowhere in the world, because he did not bring it with him?
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