Find Your If: The Greatest Advice My Art Teacher Ever Gave Me

Send us Fan Mail My high school art teacher gave me one of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever received. The funny thing is—she first gave it to me twenty-five years ago. This week on Along the Way, an old art portfolio, a new sketchbook, and Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If—” helped me understand where this show truly begins: inside the notebook. We spend a lot of our lives aiming at what we desire—money, recognition, applause, success. But a desire is not a task. You cannot do fame. You ...