Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi and a good story
A Monday story
I came across a story I really liked in John Richardson's biography "A Life of Picasso". Here it is "Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking all the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You'd have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you'd go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you.
Most people put up with this because they go to hand out with Picasso all day, but not Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian born sculptor. Brancusi hailed from the Carpathian Mountains, and he knew a vampire when he saw one. He was not going to have his energy or the fruits of his energy juiced by Picasso, so he refused to have anything to do with him. "
This little story made me giggle .... and nod .... we all have in our lives, people who deplete us from energy, who make us feel completely empty, exhausted after being in their company. Sometimes is really good to be like Brancusi and stay away from such people.
@Marc Arginteanu thanks for sharing!
I love the story of Picasso and Brancusi....mad artists with voracious obsessions. It sent me to the Romanian Carpathians, which I hadn't thought about for years. I used to read the children's classic by James Howe every year with my third and fourth graders: "Bunnicula" was a vampire bunny adopted by a family with sibling rivalry issues; and he had a night time habit of sucking the juice out of vegetables. Thanks!