Comments on: A little rant, for your mental consumption:

By: Troo

Troo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:24:34 +0000

Couldn’t agree more – and that’s speaking as a writer, not a painter. At least when we’re plagiarised we can Google for it >.<

By: Arianna

Arianna — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:11:19 +0000

AMEN to that. Few things piss me off more than people who just dismiss artists as people with “a silly little hobby” who should “get a real job” (someone said that to me once. and never said it again.) Or people who go around stealing other’s art and don’t care to think that someone might have put effort into the art.

It takes work to make a painting look just the way you want it or a story to play out just like you dreamed.

But then, for me it’s worth putting up with people like your redneck friend when the guy in the desk next to me sees a simple sketch i’ve done and tells me how cool it is and that he wishes he could draw like that. Or when i overhear a conversation where someone is telling his friends how he found that drawing well was harder than it looked and how he realizes how much effort artists must put in to their work. It reassures me that there are people who don’t consider art a stupid pastime and can actually appreciate it.

and if that made sense, great. if not, then oh well. it made sense in my scattered brain.

By: elf_fu

elf_fu — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:43:02 +0000

“I want to climb, Samara-style, backwards over the seat, disjointed as a spider, until I’m looming over him, my eyes pitch-black and demonic, and vomit up four dollars in his lap. Then scream in a banshee’s unholy wail “IS FOUR DOLLARS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR YOU, YOU TIGHT-FISTED REDNECK FUCKTARD?” Unfortunately, I’m not hinged that way.”

This is a beautiful image, and deserves it’s own portrait, or wall to wall capture.

I don’t know. I’ve never been able to see art as easy, because everything I make I end up hating–seeing where I could have done better, or seeing where I screwed up, or seeing where I should have done this or that.

I do envy other artists their talent, but I never think it’s something easy. If I had the money to spend on it, I think I’d have a house full of it.