Well, yeah. You have to be willing to defend your artistic choices, and do your work without fear of fucking up or being sneered at... but there's these two important things you have to learn, and you can't do them at once. Seeing like a child from innocence is very different from consciously seeing like that.
Oh, and I couldn't think of anyone I consider an "artistic genius", in late reply to your comment on the other entry. I've worked with people who've been called "geniuses" and it's really just a matter of having a period in your life where drawing is what you do, all the damn time. This is not necessarily a good period when you're having it, either; it might be a way of escaping from some horrible shit!
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Date: 2005-11-22 07:00 pm (UTC)Oh, and I couldn't think of anyone I consider an "artistic genius", in late reply to your comment on the other entry. I've worked with people who've been called "geniuses" and it's really just a matter of having a period in your life where drawing is what you do, all the damn time. This is not necessarily a good period when you're having it, either; it might be a way of escaping from some horrible shit!