THE VINTAGE MAN
The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one

Is:

The novice
Will often lay down his tool
or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table

And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade.

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting

Light.
-Hafiz (transl. by Daniel Ladinsky)

Karen Kain attended Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first degree was in performance, her second was in painting and drawing. She did an apprenticeship Kazuaki Tanahashi, a master Japanese brush painter and noted translator of Zen texts.

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