If you're not talking to me why are you talking to me?

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #44

    At this precise moment in some workshop a neophyte artist is responding to criticism with either:

1. "It's all just a matter of taste!" or,

2. "I create for myself."

    If #1 is true why show it to critics?

    If #2 is true why show it to anyone?

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