Posted by Jay Livingston
I heard Tomie da Paola l speak one summer at the Wellfleet Library on Cape Cod.
“Who here knows how to draw?” he asked. A few people raised their hands — there’s no dearth of artists on the Cape in the summer — but most of us didn’t. “If you ask that question to a bunch of five-year olds, they all raise their hands,” he said.
His point was not, of course, that as we grow older we lose our ability to draw. What we lose is the ability to find joy in drawing.
That evening in the library, it was obvious from the man himself, even you didn’t know that he had drawn/written hundreds of books, that he never lost that joy.
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