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The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started by: petermfiore on March 09, 2014, 08:33:04 am

Title: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: petermfiore on March 09, 2014, 08:33:04 am
Peter
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 09, 2014, 08:58:20 am
Absolutely!
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: wmchauncey on March 19, 2014, 10:40:14 am
A fair number of those represent necessities in our journey towards adequacy.       ;D
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: petermfiore on March 19, 2014, 02:58:46 pm
Quote from: wmchauncey on March 19, 2014, 10:40:14 am
A fair number of those represent necessities in our journey towards adequacy.       ;D

Adequacy is not the final stop on the path toward becoming an artist.

Peter
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: wmchauncey on March 19, 2014, 03:16:15 pm
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Adequacy is not the final stop on the path toward becoming an artist.
No, you're correct...more of a way station.  One could argue that there is no endpoint to the journey.      ;)
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: petermfiore on March 19, 2014, 03:21:15 pm
Quote from: wmchauncey on March 19, 2014, 03:16:15 pm
  One could argue that there is no endpoint to the journey.      ;)

The journey with no end is the joy of the journey...

Peter
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on March 19, 2014, 03:41:29 pm
Quote from: petermfiore on March 19, 2014, 02:58:46 pm
Adequacy is not the final stop on the path toward becoming an artist.

Peter

Maybe even being an artist is not the final stop toward being an artist.
Cheers
~Chris
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: petermfiore on March 19, 2014, 03:50:14 pm
Quote from: Christoph C. Feldhaim on March 19, 2014, 03:41:29 pm
Maybe even being an artist is not the final stop toward being an artist.
Cheers
~Chris

You bet....there is no final stop, until death. If one is lucky that inevitable turn could propel one into immortality .. and we go on and on and on and on.......etc.

Peter
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: barnack on April 11, 2014, 09:50:23 am
@Peter,

Is there an online link to this, or did you create this list yourself?  I would like to pass it on to my photographic cohorts...
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: Chris_Brown on April 11, 2014, 10:04:20 am
I prefer visual aids to help me see the milestones.
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: slackercruster on June 04, 2014, 11:50:51 pm
Good list!
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: RSL on June 05, 2014, 06:03:04 pm
Quote from: wmchauncey on March 19, 2014, 10:40:14 am
A fair number of those represent necessities in our journey towards adequacy.       ;D

Adequacy for what, Chanucey?
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: wmchauncey on June 05, 2014, 10:21:50 pm
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Adequacy for what, Chanucey?
Simply that occasional failures are a prerequisite in our journey towards being an adequate photographer.    ;)
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: RSL on June 06, 2014, 10:56:52 am
Quote from: wmchauncey on June 05, 2014, 10:21:50 pm
Simply that occasional failures are a prerequisite in our journey towards being an adequate photographer.    ;)

Who would want to be an "adequate" photographer? Every time I go down town I see the work of "adequate" photographers in the windows of local purveyors of portraits and wedding pictures.
Title: Re: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
Post by: wmchauncey on June 06, 2014, 11:27:28 am
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Who would want to be an "adequate" photographer
Do not presuppose that adequacy is one's aspiration, rather than a stage of development.   ;D