Is your art really that bad?
Posted on April 11, 2007, by dazzer67, under perspiration, quick tips, quotes.
Picture it, you’re in the ‘creative’ zone, pulling together your masterpiece; pouring out soul into your art… and then you take a step back, look/listen to it and think, ‘that’s rubbish.’
It is all to easy to throw away what you’ve done, becasue you don’t think it is good enough. Perhaps it isn’t the best that could be done, perhaps it does need some more work, perhaps it isn’t great. But it is something that you have created.
At these times, why not use the following quote from John Cage to question whether it really is rubbish.
‘The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.’
John Cage
2 Replies to "Is your art really that bad?"
Jackal on April 17, 2007
Well said !
Camille Crawford on April 16, 2007
Maybe sometimes it isn’t necessary to be beautiful. Beautiful doesn’t define art. Art is defined by it’s message, beautiful or not, I think.
Camille