8 March 2009

Milton Glaser once said, “For me, drawing has been the most fundamental way of engaging the world. I’m convinced that it is only through drawing that I actually look at things carefully, and the act of drawing makes me conscious of what I’m looking at. If I wasn’t drawing, I sense that I would not be seeing.”

This both inspires me and concerns me. I want to draw. I want to look, to see, engage, understand and know — but I’m not good at drawing, and I spend no time practicing. Sometimes I tell my wife, who is an art teacher, that I’d like for her to teach me how to draw. I imagine some day I’ll actually begin working seriously on this shortcoming. Meanwhile, I really want to read this book:

The Milton Glaser quote above is from Steven Heller’s Just Enough is More, a short film about the designer Milton Glaser. (The direct link on the page doesn’t work, but you can find the video through the iTunes link in the yellow box.)