The Artist's Way

or stop sending work out into the world. A perfectionist
friend, teacher, or critic—like a perfectionist parent who
nitpicks at missing commas—can dampen the ardor of a
young artist who is just learning to let it rip. Because of this,
as artists, we must learn to be very self-protective.
Does this mean no criticism? No. It means learning where
and when to seek out right criticism. As artists, we must
learn when criticism is appropriate and from whom. Not
only the source but the timing is very important here. A first
draft is seldom appropriately shown to any but the most
gentle and discerning eye. It often takes another artist to see
the embryonic work that is trying to sprout. The
inexperienced or harsh critical eye, instead of nurturing the
shoot of art into being, may shoot it down instead.

Since   you are like    no  other   being   ever    created since   the

beginning   of  time,   you are incomparable.

BRENDA  UELAND

I   have    made    my  world   and it  is  a   much    better  world

than    I   ever    saw outside.

LOUISE  NEVELSON

As artists, we cannot control all the criticism we will
receive. We cannot make our professional critics more
healthy or more loving or more constructive than they are.