Comments on: Everyone Gets Rejections http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/15/everyone-gets-rejections/ Random musings from the exaggerated mind of Cindie Geddes Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:44:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pasadena Adjacent http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/15/everyone-gets-rejections/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Pasadena Adjacent Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:26:30 +0000 http://cindiegeddes.com/?p=147#comment-203 I think I understand what your saying but I'd add that the very idea that we go to school in pursuit of the "be seen/read" life, sets us up into a system of check points (unknown to the hobbyist). killing the creative joy....I call it stepping on the sprout Back to the balance... which maybe something that comes to us with age. Accepting limitations and not sharing your concepts (but with the most trusted of friends). I think I understand what your saying but I’d add that the very idea that we go to school in pursuit of the “be seen/read” life, sets us up into a system of check points (unknown to the hobbyist).

killing the creative joy….I call it stepping on the sprout

Back to the balance… which maybe something that comes to us with age. Accepting limitations and not sharing your concepts (but with the most trusted of friends).

]]> By: Des http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/15/everyone-gets-rejections/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Des Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:37:50 +0000 http://cindiegeddes.com/?p=147#comment-182 I second it all, but especially your first line! I second it all, but especially your first line!

]]> By: Cindie http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/15/everyone-gets-rejections/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Cindie Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:41:17 +0000 http://cindiegeddes.com/?p=147#comment-174 And there's the rub for me. I AM free to do as I please, but there's no guarantee of anyone else liking it. There's a difference in there between a professional writer (unpublished or published) and a hobbyist (unpublished or published), but I'm not exactly sure where the line is. The balance is difficult. On one side you've got the artist chasing markets, listening to everyone's advice, trying to please every one and killing the creative joy even if he or she does sell (which is no guarantee0. On the other end is the artist who will not listen to any criticism or external insight and who does not want to learn or improve and thereby pleases only him or herself. I want to have the confidence to be true to my story but the wisdom to know how to make it better, from wherever insight might come. And there’s the rub for me. I AM free to do as I please, but there’s no guarantee of anyone else liking it. There’s a difference in there between a professional writer (unpublished or published) and a hobbyist (unpublished or published), but I’m not exactly sure where the line is. The balance is difficult. On one side you’ve got the artist chasing markets, listening to everyone’s advice, trying to please every one and killing the creative joy even if he or she does sell (which is no guarantee0. On the other end is the artist who will not listen to any criticism or external insight and who does not want to learn or improve and thereby pleases only him or herself. I want to have the confidence to be true to my story but the wisdom to know how to make it better, from wherever insight might come.

]]> By: Pasadena Adjacent http://cindiegeddes.com/2010/01/15/everyone-gets-rejections/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Pasadena Adjacent Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:14:45 +0000 http://cindiegeddes.com/?p=147#comment-173 Ivan C Karp told long time friend Mr D whose photo-realist work he represented to "get rid of the dragons" he had started painting "cause jews won't buy um" Karp was Assistant Director of the Leo Castelli Gallery from 1959-1969 and in 1969 opened the OK Harris Gallery. Notice the use of anonymity I've afforded Mr D? Representation is representation. Also if anyone thinks for a minute artist's are free to do as they please...think again Ivan C Karp told long time friend Mr D whose photo-realist work he represented to “get rid of the dragons” he had started painting “cause jews won’t buy um”

Karp was Assistant Director of the Leo Castelli Gallery from 1959-1969 and in 1969 opened the OK Harris Gallery.

Notice the use of anonymity I’ve afforded Mr D? Representation is representation. Also if anyone thinks for a minute artist’s are free to do as they please…think again

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