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| Robert Fulton Quote - Acrylic and Ink on Paper |
Sometimes you come across a quote that is so rich in imagery that you find yourself running for your pencil or paints. The other day I was looking through a Kaatskill Life Magazine and there was a nice little article on Robert Fulton. It felt serendipitous because they used some photos from the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, NY, where just last week I'd left some work in their gift shop. The quote used at the beginning of the article was this:
"As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old, it is a nice discriminatory judgement, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibitions of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea into the world."
I love this statement. It IS poetry, and seems to fit so many creative processes, whether art, music, writing, scientific discovery.
I had to start getting this down on paper. Here is my first attempt.
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