With the recent thread about evaluating photgraphs, I thought I'd share this with the list. Regards, Feroze
The Painter's Mistakes
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Great story that offers a lot of food for thought. I may be reading into it too much, but I'd take the message to be that many people will criticise and critique, but no one can join in the creative process. To that end, no one but yourself can really evaluate your work in the context of what you intended to achieve except yourself.
The real challenge is to be honest with yourself - and that is a blade that cuts both ways. It means having faith and confidence when people who don't understand your work criticize it. It also means listening to that criticism to see if you are deluding yourself. And most subtle of all, it means questioning praise and positive comments when in your heart you know you could have done better.
No wonder artists live in garrets and are depressed!
- MCC ----- Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI -----
Photography:
http://www.markcassino.com
