Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)
by marttt on Friday December 15, 2023 @09:15AM
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Another version, IIRC true story, from a small European country. A legendary artist and book illustrator (real person) meets a client in a cafeteria. The client says, I want a drawing with this, this and this, and it should carry a feeling of something like this.
The artist takes out a drawing pad and says to the client, would you excuse me for 15 minutes, I need to draw in silence and solitude.
The client leaves and sits to a different table.
After 15 minutes, the artist hands him over the drawing and names a price.
So much? cries the client. This is quite expensive. You only drew for 15 minutes.
Well, says the artist. In order to draw this in 15 minutes, I have been practicing drawing for at least 5 hours every day for the last 50 years.
Absolutely love this story (and the mentioned artist as well, he was a huge inspiration for many).
The artist takes out a drawing pad and says to the client, would you excuse me for 15 minutes, I need to draw in silence and solitude.
The client leaves and sits to a different table.
After 15 minutes, the artist hands him over the drawing and names a price.
So much? cries the client. This is quite expensive. You only drew for 15 minutes.
Well, says the artist. In order to draw this in 15 minutes, I have been practicing drawing for at least 5 hours every day for the last 50 years.
Absolutely love this story (and the mentioned artist as well, he was a huge inspiration for many).