速寫頭像含哲理 ( 1 )

After stopping sketches quite long, I picked up for a friend's wedding party of a hundred guests.

 

I refreshed some ideas, such as:

 

* likeness is objective also subjective matter, in my past career, the rejection rate of my works is in probably lowest  category among portrait artists, if one's eyes pour too long, it will wear out, get lost even you don't realize it.

 

Therefore, 孫子兵法 “謀定而後動，知止而有得” is a guiding teaching for both management and art.

 

“謀定" demands to seek the optimal goal:

 

What is the strategy to use one's limited time, energy and means?

 

What is in one's subject's mind?

 

What trap one should avoid?

 

How to manage it for the best interest of both parties?

 

and so forth, then 知止而有得. I'll take snap shots for local guests and finish it late is a kind of 知止.  

 

In tomorrow's  case, I should correct my past mistakes, like ignorance of the complexity of the human nature, stubbornness when situation is changed, etc. “不戰而屈人之兵，善之善者也”, To avoid any manner of tactlessness is a step closer to it.



《大學》說：“大學之道，在明明德，在親民，在止於至善。知止而後有定，定而後能靜，靜而後能安，安而後能慮，慮而後能得。”  朱子注：“止者，所當止之地，即至善之所在也。知之，則誌有定向。靜，謂心不妄動。安，謂所處而安。”

 

 

 

 

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