"A characteristic of artistic education is for people to tell you that you’re a genius. […] So everybody gets this idea, if you go to art school, that you’re really a genius. Sadly, it isn’t true. Genius occurs very rarely. So the real embarrassing issue about failure is your own acknowledgement that you’re not a genius, that you’re not as good as you thought you were. […] There’s only one solution: You must embrace failure. You must admit what is. You must find out what you’re capable of doing, and what you’re not capable of doing. That is the only way to deal with the issue of success and failure because otherwise you simply would never subject yourself to the possibility that you’re not as good as you want to be, hope to be, or as others think you are."

Milton Glaser

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Moholy-Nagy - Sunday Brunch

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Comments

Well said. Excited about the latest works you've posted pics of.
Urban Soule said…
I love this painting!
Anonymous said…
As always...great work! But the quote? So true. So true.
Thanks everyone!
Mark Kusek said…
I always remember this advice: "Most art, like everything else, is "mediocre." makes the good ones stand out.