Sunday, January 15, 2012

John Singer Sargent Quote

"Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen."

I love this quote. It reminds me of the importance of practicing mindfulness, being in the present (rather than you mind wandering in thoughts) and getting out to see the world.



On a side note, I've been drawing up the Dark Knight for fun in the evenings. The plan is to print it out to be five feet tall, mount it on cardboard/foam core and hang it up on a wall. The file is HUGE! Put it this way, it takes about three minutes to save and open the file in Photoshop :) More to come soon. For now, here are a couple screen shots of the work in progress. (The Magneto image is from the Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 game art and is being used for reference).


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love that quote. I found your blog via Urban threads and I just wanted to say how amazing your designs are, and then I find you are a mindfullness practitioner too- you totally rock!

Taylor S Smith said...

Thank you for the kind words. This comment is super delayed but I just wanted to say thanks for stopping by and wish you my very best.