Jerome Marot
Well-known member
I have never seen you so upset, Asher. Don't let the Aussies get on your nerves. Tom has a perfectly valid point: some people have genuine talent or simply enjoy producing works which pleases them and their friends but are too humble to recognize that what they produced has as much value as what sometimes hangs in a museum. They see themselves down in a pit and the genuine artists on a pedestal in an ivory tower.
So they don't consider themselves artists. Even when they are talented. They may even stop taking pictures (or drawings, sculpture, music, etc...). It is a great waste.
At the same time, some pretentious shmuck hangs dead toads in a world-class museum. Upside down. And the critics go insane on the great symbolism of the toads and associated batrachians. Or maybe it was not a toad, but a fountain, a view of the Rhine river or something more abstract I have not quite figured out.
It is a great waste indeed.
So they don't consider themselves artists. Even when they are talented. They may even stop taking pictures (or drawings, sculpture, music, etc...). It is a great waste.
At the same time, some pretentious shmuck hangs dead toads in a world-class museum. Upside down. And the critics go insane on the great symbolism of the toads and associated batrachians. Or maybe it was not a toad, but a fountain, a view of the Rhine river or something more abstract I have not quite figured out.
It is a great waste indeed.