http://smlacyart.com/art-vs-craft-the-role-inspiration-plays-in-my-art/ Sarah Marie Lacy is an artist who paints moody landscapes and delicate figures in oils and acrylics. Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://smlacyart.com/art-vs-craft-the-role-inspiration-plays-in-my-art/comment-page-1/#comment-2184 jlmag Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:58:40 +0000 http://smlacyart.com/?p=4836#comment-2184 what an incredibly thoughtful and thought-provoking response to my rather flip question — I don’t make a habit of accosting folk in the grocery store to ask probing questions–tho your response is so lovely that I just might start! You paraphrased the question much more elegantly than it was asked, and that’s exactly what I was wondering–thank you. I guess I was thinking of things I love and how they can become drudgery under pressure (reading–but when I read for a teaching deadline, it becomes slightly panicky and unpleasant–even if I love the novel). But reading isn’t creating; it’s absorbing–and teaching a novel is sort of like being a parasite. So, maybe it’s different when you’re actually creating, working to execute your own inspiration–I think i get a little of that with my amateur iphoneography stuff, which is the closest I get to creation, to art. Hmmmmmmm — now I shall be musing:)

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