Criticism will come. Fair and unfair criticism, useful and pointless criticism, sympahetic and mean criticism, the criticism that informs and the criticism that wounds. Should an artist attempt to duck all that criticism, the valuable as well as the vitriolic, and spare herself some pain? But that's quite impossible! For if she is seen at all, she is a critic's fair game. So hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.
"No statue has ever been put up to a critic."
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius
the above comes from Affirmations for Artists by Eric Maisel
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