"genus irritable": More than half way there with 55! A few years ago I made a goal to submit my work to competitions and juried shows until I got 101 rejections. It’s a way to motivate myself not to get discouraged by #rejection. Every rejection motivates me to work smarter, harder, and submit more work. . . #artschool #artschoollife #painting #drawing #ocac #pdxartist #pdxartistsatwork #contemporaryrealism

Friday, November 2, 2018

More than half way there with 55! A few years ago I made a goal to submit my work to competitions and juried shows until I got 101 rejections. It’s a way to motivate myself not to get discouraged by #rejection. Every rejection motivates me to work smarter, harder, and submit more work. . . #artschool #artschoollife #painting #drawing #ocac #pdxartist #pdxartistsatwork #contemporaryrealism

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". . . That poets (using the word comprehensively, as including artists in general) are a genus irritable, is well understood. . . An artist is an artist only by dint of his exquisite sense of Beauty — a sense affording him rapturous enjoyment, but at the same time implying or involving, an equally exquisite sense of Deformity, of disproportion. Thus a wrong — an injustice — done a poet who is really a poet, excites him to a degree which, to ordinary apprehension, appears disproportionate with the wrong. Poets see injustice never where it does not exist — but very often where the unpoetical see no injustice whatever. Thus the poetical irritability has no reference to ‘temper’ in the vulgar sense, but merely to a more than usual clear-sightedness in respect to wrong: — this clear-sightedness being nothing more than a corollary from the vivid perceptions of right — of justice — of proportion. . . But one thing is clear — that the man who is not ‘irritable’ (to the ordinary apprehension), is no poet.” ~Edgar Allan Poe