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I share his impulse to create and his desire to be good at things, both of which are great sources of satisfaction for me.

From the Financial Times article on the artist Henry Taylor:

The impulse to create seems to have been with Taylor from a young age. He tried being a writer (“I wasn’t good enough”, he says), and dabbled in theatre before settling on painting. The youngest of eight siblings, Taylor credits high-achieving brothers for pushing him to find something he could excel at. “I had brothers who were like track stars, they were real good at things,” he says. “I said, damn, what am I going to do? I wanted to be good at something.

It’s perhaps ironic that an artist who never set out to follow the conventional path to artistic success is enjoying precisely that. Taylor has now had exhibitions all over the world…

All this is extra and it all came late,” Taylor says. “My mom used to say, ‘put your best foot forward’. And I said, probably the best thing I can do is draw. I may not be the best at it, but I keep working at it.