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More in the Beethoven adventure – bold is my own:

When a friend asked Beethoven which of his quartets did he consider to be the best, Beethoven answered, “Each in its own way, Art demands of us that we should not stand still.” However, the composer later eluded that Op. 131 was his greatest work in this genre.

Now what a great response that is. It’s hard not to love love love whatever it is you’re working on now, but at some point my brain starts turning towards the lure of new projects. Without even knowing perhaps what those projects are, I start noticing new colors, or some new shape. I make a small pile of fabric to consider and it sits while I work on the current work. And as much as I love the thing before me and the excitement of seeing it come to being, and as exciting as the future work seems, there are things I love about most of the past works. Some I like very much indeed, often not for the reason I was first excited about.