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Hello Michael,
I had a revelation about a year and a half ago. I realized that the degree to which I could use my studio as a sanctuary would be the degree to which I could grow as an artist as well as a human being.
I realized that a ritual of a few pages of classic literature before working, or even during breaks would increase my knowledge of quality literature immensely after a few years. I see that as important to my growth as an artist because the depth of ourselves that we bring to the highest forms of art is what allows our own art to grow to the height of the arts that we saturate ourselves with. It's no coincidence that Michelangelo was schooled by Lorenzo D'Medici in the arts and sciences.
As I grow more as an artist I wonder how I could have ever painted in the past listening to The Beatles or Led Zeppelin. When I can listen to anything now, it must be classical or quality audio-literature. I just finished a week of listening to Plato's Symposium.
Still, as the years pass, I see that I cannot handle the disturbances that I was able to handle before. It feels good. The same way a monk who spends his time in meditation becomes more and more sensitive to his surroundings, an artist does, too.
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