Here's a brief entry on work of artists
and how they may be influenced by
and influence others.
The New York Times online (09 September 2008) has an article on the retrospective celebration
of Maurice Sendak's 80th birthday. It's titled,
"Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are,"
echoing the title of his most famous book.
Here's the Wikipedia entry on Sendak.
I found interesting Sendak's artistic influences (he named his dog "Herman" after Melville)
and his views on his own influence:
So he spends his days pondering his heroes: Mozart, Keats, Blake, Melville and Dickinson. He admires and yearns for their “ability to be private, the ability to be alone, the ability to follow some spiritual course not written down by anybody.”Mr. Sendak is quick to insist that a vast distance stands between his own accomplishments and theirs. “I’m not one of those people,” he said. “I can’t pretend to be.”
Still, he has the feeling that “I will do something yet that is purely for me but will create for someone in the future that passion that Blake and Keats did in me.”
What he has failed to consider, though, is that he may already have.
Who influences you in your profession?
Who are you influencing professionally,
consciously or not?