I recently
emailed, asking him, "Though
they give me a
college education, I yearn to know, in three simple steps, how I can learn to
draw like you."
To my happy surprise, he indeed responded, saying:
1. Get a bitch of a mother who bans coloring books from your house and
instills in you an urgent and futile need to please her.
2. Drink so hard that the only job you can hold down is knocking on doors
asking people if they want a drawing of their house for fifty bucks.
3. When approaching forty years of age, come to your senses with a shock
of realization at your failure in everything but an ability to draw things
and desperately send portfolios to every magazine in the country.
"
Love wakes men, once a
lifetime each;
they lift their
heavy lids, and look;
and, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
they read with joy, then shut the book.
And some give thanks, and some
blaspheme, and most forget;
but either way, that and the
child's unheeded
dream is all the light of all
their day."
-
Sock Monkey