Comments on: Few words on an artist’s condition… http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/ Making and Thinking About Visual Art Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laurie Landry http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/comment-page-1/#comment-9198 Laurie Landry Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:57:06 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/#comment-9198 <p>Upon re-reading my message, particularly the quote - I realize that it may be taken out of context.</p> <p>I should have added that the point the authors was making with that quote is that it's ridiculous, of course, to think that. You are still a person, a beautiful, creative person, and if you make flawed art, it doesn't mean that you're flawed. Not at all. You're still a beautiful, creative person who can keep on making beautiful art, and the more you do, the less flawed it becomes. Don't worry about labels - you paint for yourself, not for the "art world". You are an artist, regardless of whether anyone calls you an artist or not.</p> <p>You still have to walk your path, though. :)</p> Upon re-reading my message, particularly the quote — I realize that it may be taken out of context.

I should have added that the point the authors was making with that quote is that it’s ridiculous, of course, to think that. You are still a person, a beautiful, creative person, and if you make flawed art, it doesn’t mean that you’re flawed. Not at all. You’re still a beautiful, creative person who can keep on making beautiful art, and the more you do, the less flawed it becomes. Don’t worry about labels — you paint for yourself, not for the “art world”. You are an artist, regardless of whether anyone calls you an artist or not.

You still have to walk your path, though. :)

]]> By: katarzyna http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/comment-page-1/#comment-9131 katarzyna Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:22:01 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/#comment-9131 <p>Laurie Landry, Thanks for your kind comment and the truthful quote. All the best to you.</p> Laurie Landry, Thanks for your kind comment and the truthful quote. All the best to you.

]]> By: Laurie Landry http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/comment-page-1/#comment-9126 Laurie Landry Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:35:12 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/few-words-on-an-artists-condition/#comment-9126 <p>I found this posting very interesting to read and would like to share this little piece of nugget from Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:</p> <p>"Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!"</p> <p>In other words, there are many paths an artist can take towards making art. It is up to us to explore these paths and find the path that is ours to take.</p> I found this posting very interesting to read and would like to share this little piece of nugget from Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:

“Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!”

In other words, there are many paths an artist can take towards making art. It is up to us to explore these paths and find the path that is ours to take.

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