Peter Schjeldahl was the New Yorker art critic from 1998-2022. He once made the observation what separates extraordinary from ordinary people is “a minimum of moving parts.”
Writing about Picasso, Schjeldahl said, “People make the mistake of supposing that genius is complicated. It is the opposite. We regular folk are complicated—tied in knots of ambivalence and befogged with uncertainties. Genius has the economy of a machine with a minimum of moving parts. Everything about Picasso came to bear when he drew a line.“
When was the last time you did something with “a minimum of moving parts?” When was the last time you metaphorically drew a Picasso line? How did that feel? Extraordinary?
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