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"Was there a specific moment in your life where art really mattered or made a difference for you?" (part 1)
Press conference for Monuments Men. All eyes on Bill Murray.
A reporter asks:"What do you think the world would be like without art in it?"
Press conference for Monuments Men. All eyes on Bill Murray.
A reporter asks:"What do you think the world would be like without art in it?"
Reporter continues: "What would your life have been like had you not discovered art or creativity? Was there a specific moment in your life where art really mattered or made a difference for you?"
It is this last question Bill Murray answers.
It is this last question Bill Murray answers.
He tells the story of wandering into the Chicago Art Institute totally bummed out & feeling ready to die having completely blown his first audition. Murray settles upon a painting "The Song of the Lark", done by Jules Adolphe Breton in 1884,
and looking at the subject, a young woman who is working the fields in in the morning, projecting fortitude and grit despite her circumstances, he recognizes "I too am a person and I get a new chance everyday, when the sun comes up."
(HT @metafilter).
(HT @metafilter).
And most importantly the woman, the worker, the subject is able to appreciate the song of the bird she hears, despite all the labor she knows is still before her.
And yet sometimes we need the title to remind us that is what she is hearing, that is what we are seeing.
And yet sometimes we need the title to remind us that is what she is hearing, that is what we are seeing.
