Renauldo
Simple,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, March 22, 2004
Hi, I've taken classes at major art schools, and believe most, not all, tend to be crooked in their dealings with students. Such crokedness doesn't only imply financial aid problems, but intense psychological game playing and the pains associated with such. You see, they don't really want you to succeed, what they want is your money, and then for you 'not' to be able to compete effectively with them. If they take your money away, and then your pride, you'll likely have no foundation to stand upon, and will ultimately fail as an artist. However, art is worth the education and attempts at further trying. Don't quit, just because other artists and such, out there in the world are less than ogres. Educate yourself at schools, but more particularly, at home. Read about everything you can, not just art, and 'produce' art, lots of it, the more the better. It doesn't have to be fancy either, just do it! Pencil and paper if you have to. You'll do superior work along with the less than adequet. Just never look down on your 'precieved' failures. Find ways of turning such things to your advantage, but not by conforming to the way bad or indecent people act. One loses when that happens. If you do nothing, you'll produce nothing. You can still be an artist and have an ipact on life, even if you never get paid to do it. Also, once you lose the fun of art, you just best quit. Art must remain fun, or at least pleasurable. What can you do for yourself to attain those things, fun and pleasure. Please do yourself a favor, and think closely on these things. I'm not implying you are ignorant, you get more credit from me than that, but you can always become better, and the odds out in life ain't all that good, when the people you might be dealing with have 'no' scrupples whatever, and they may not. They may not look at your art as favorable, even if it's the best. They 'may' only care about their advantage, not yours. What can you do now to make your life better? Take your time and 'think, think, think.' Don't quit, love what you do, have fun, and seek pleasure in the work you chose, remembering that work dosen't always imply a paycheck.