After stopping sketches quite long, I picked up for a friend's wedding party of a hundred guests.
I refreshed some ideas, such as:
* likeness is objective also subjective matter, in my past career, the rejection rate of my works is in probably lowest category among portrait artists, if one's eyes pour too long, it will wear out, get lost even you don't realize it.
Therefore, 孙子兵法 “谋定而后动，知止而有得” is a guiding teaching for both management and art.
“谋定" demands to seek the optimal goal:
What is the strategy to use one's limited time, energy and means?
What is in one's subject's mind?
What trap one should avoid?
How to manage it for the best interest of both parties?
and so forth, then 知止而有得. I'll take snap shots for local guests and finish it late is a kind of 知止.
In tomorrow's case, I should correct my past mistakes, like ignorance of the complexity of the human nature, stubbornness when situation is changed, etc. “不战而屈人之兵，善之善者也”, To avoid any manner of tactlessness is a step closer to it.
《大学》说：“大学之道，在明明德，在亲民，在止于至善。知止而后有定，定而后能静，静而后能安，安而后能虑，虑而后能得。” 朱子注：“止者，所当止之地，即至善之所在也。知之，则志有定向。静，谓心不妄动。安，谓所处而安。”
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