Today is August 4 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “Are you working enough so that inspiration can find you?”
People who navigate the chaos understand that in order for inspiration to find them they have to be working on translating their vision into reality.
Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, noted “inspiration exists but it has to find you working inspiration exists but it has to find you working.”
A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France.
The enormous body of Picasso's work remains. He believed that work would keep him alive.
For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century. Do you believe that your work will keep you alive? Are you working enough so that inspiration can find you?