Thanks Kevin. Word directly from one of his students says that there is no English translation. I'm a bit bummed but I guess it means I've got to bone up my Portuguese now (I'm intermediate, but what the hell, I might as well take that leap).
I completely agree with the concept, though. The idea that an artist is indeed working when looking out the window is both completely accurate so difficult to explain in a productivity-driven world where the 9-5 can show what it's done at the end of the day. Still, I firmly believe that the 2000-hour work year has the same level of productivity for both artists and the corporate worker, for example. It's just that the corporate worker shows something every day and the artist shows something in chunks weeks apart.
One of these days the artist will be vindicated.
