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Stuck? Uninspired? Go to Paris! — Pilgrimage to the Source pg219
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
William was a dealer in French antiques and vintage decor, and had bought my paintings over time. They hung in his eclectic warehouse space among the lair of treasures he shipped from Europe by the container-load. As his business became successful, he was doing a couple of buying trips a year. Magnanimous of spirit and slightly larger than life, William offered to share a small chateau just outside Paris in the early spring of 2003. A client had loaned him the use of it because William was the kind of person to whom people loaned chateaus. He called to enthusiastically insist I had to see the Louvre. I got a cheap ticket and flew to Paris, where the history of everything beautiful is just sitting right out there for anyone to see. — From Chapter 12
“You should seek inspiration in Paris” is a cliche that happens to be great advice. It is cliche precisely because the triumph of art and ideas concentrated in that city has inspired so many creative types over so many centuries as to become, well, cliche. I was just one more.
Paris showed me how bereft of scope my art education really was. Not surprising since my art degree was from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I ate superior cheese and…
