If you are an artist and a writer its pretty hard not to be friends with artists. I think critics who stay personally detached from artists have it easy. They also have more range to say how they feel. But the upside of artists writing about artists is a core-issues dialogue you don't get otherwise, a conversation.
I've had one extreme example of a fellow-artist and friend getting mad at me for a negative review. It took them about 10 years to get over it. At the time, they suggested that I should have spoken to them personally about my complaints, as a friend, before publishing. I still mull that one over. Maybe they were right.
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I've had one extreme example of a fellow-artist and friend getting mad at me for a negative review. It took them about 10 years to get over it. At the time, they suggested that I should have spoken to them personally about my complaints, as a friend, before publishing. I still mull that one over. Maybe they were right.
- sally mckay 6-08-2007 4:41 am