A conversation with Russ Ramsey - S10.E3
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Russ Ramsey is a pastor and art lover on a mission to help people see themselves as creators, made in God's image. He believes studying great artists can inform our own process of making and creating. In this conversation with host Warren Smith, Ramsey talks about the artists he highlights in his new book, Rembrandt Is In The Wind: Learning To Love Art Through The Eyes of Faith.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with pastor and author |
| 0:07.8 | Russ Ramsey. His new book is called Rembrandt is in the Wind, learning to love art through the eyes |
| 0:15.6 | of faith. One of the things that you see in studying the lives of these artists is the discipline to their craft |
| 0:22.3 | had a direct relationship on not only the lasting power of it for us, |
| 0:28.3 | but it had a direct relationship to the enjoyment that they got out of creating it. |
| 0:34.4 | And the principle there is that mastery begets joy. |
| 0:39.6 | When Russ Ramsey was in high school, he got some great advice from one of his art teachers. |
| 0:46.0 | If the study of art, especially art history, is daunting, then break it down. Find an artist that you love and learn all you can about that artist. |
| 0:58.2 | And then let that artist introduce you to other artists, perhaps those in his or her sphere of |
| 1:04.8 | influence, maybe artists that influenced him or artists that were influenced by the one you love. And then keep doing that over the |
| 1:14.9 | course of a lifetime. That advice has served Russ Ramsey well, though he ended up not as an artist, |
| 1:22.7 | but rather as the pastor of a church in Nashville. He learned along the way that the two vocations, |
| 1:29.4 | pastor and artist, are not that different. |
| 1:33.2 | In the beginning, God created. |
| 1:36.2 | And we are all made in his image, so we create two. |
| 1:41.1 | We may not craft a painting or a sculpture. |
| 1:44.0 | What we might be making is a business or a church, |
| 1:47.4 | a community, and of course we are all building a life. And for Christians, we're building a life |
| 1:54.6 | that we hope will bring glory to God and point others to him. Russ Ramsey reminds us that a study of the great artists can inform our own process of making |
| 2:08.1 | and creating. |
| 2:10.1 | Russ is the pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, where he lives with his wife |
| 2:15.7 | and children. |
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