My favorite random find for the week is this video of the masterpiece artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was filmed at age 74 as he painted with the assistance of his 14-year-old son, Claude.
Renoir suffered from rheumatoid arthritis the last three decades of his life. By the time this film was made (1915), he was unable to walk and his hands were permanently drawn and clenched. And yet he continued to paint! Reportedly, when the aged and debilitated artist was asked by a young Henri Matisse as to why he doggedly persisted to paint, Renoir replied, "The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
Read More about this film at Open Culture.
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