Italian renaissance artist of the day

Paolo Uccello (literally translating to Paul Bird) was obsessed with linear perspective. To the point where he neglected his family, artwork, and birds (uccelli.) Uccello’s wife complained that he sat up drawing all night, and when she’d ask him to bed all he would say was “oh what a sweet thing this perspective is!”

This is why I love art. It takes a crazy artist to know a crazy artist, and the truth is we get caught up in a technique, an idea, or a desire to translate to the point that everything suffers, even our work.

Amen, brotha Uccello. Amen.