Seven Days in the Art World ~The Crit~

"Art comes out failure, you have to try things out. You can't sit around, terrified of being incorrect, saying, 'I won't do anything until I do a masterpiece.'" (pg 52 Sarah Thorton) This quote really stuck out for me because as of late, I read Scott McCloud's ReInventing Comics. And Scott McCloud mentioned that comic artists have a tendency not to know when how much of a certain element (like how many blurs should i use during this scene, should I distort this image *because of the easy availability to do so because of the tech). After he went over many elements that come into play, he mentioned it would be smart to stay away, but for the ones that do experiment and learn the hard way, they will get more out of it then if they didn't.

"To be a good artist in the long term, you need to trust your own intuition and instincts, whereas academia is based on rational group-think.....but academics are always suspicious of the guy who stirs the big black pot" (pg. 66 Thorton). If an artist doesn't ever have confidence in the work they produce then they will never excel in their job or career. So one should always be confident and trust in their decisions for their approach in what they make.

Then a little later in the chapter she mentions overall that one should be able to back up their work and be open to criticism and open to change, so that way the work has the ability to expand and reach a new level to the prior work didn't.