We Raise a Glass

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

A Private Chapel on a Hillside in Tuscany

“The threefold responsibility of the artist is: to creation, to individual talent, and to humanity. For creation - the whole of nature - we must cultivate prayerful awe. This is our source of work and our refuge as well. We should seek harmony with nature. For the individual talent - long hours and years of steady industry hope to find our abilities fulfilled, our minds, hearts, and hands put to valuable service. In this way, we maintain the sanctity of art. Lastly, we make to humanity a willing gift of all we do. Our control over the material world lasts only a lingering moment and it takes a generous soul to build the ambition of a lifetime and then to hand it over on trust to the future.”

- Charles Phillip Brooks

Mr. Brooks statement of the artist’s condition is so well put we think it bears repeating here, at the time of year when we pause to give th…