"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." - Virginia Woolf
I think that artists occupy the other extreme end as well - where they vigorously pursue their inner vision and ignore what the rest of the world has got to say. Anyone who looks at their works and doesn't "get it" is simply an idiot.
I think that artists occupy the other extreme end as well - where they vigorously pursue their inner vision and ignore what the rest of the world has got to say. Anyone who looks at their works and doesn't "get it" is simply an idiot.
ReplyDeleteThere is that element. I do wonder if that is not for some, a defensive mechanism to counter the alternative?
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