perspective of an amateur

When does one artist realize that he has done enough.... The pure truth of this fact is that no one knows...

So when does an artist realize he should quit on a work. The love of the work in the progress is sometimes so empowering and captivating that he can work on it for ever. But the world is more than his work. He has predicaments, he has responsibilities, he has hunger, he has moodswings.
So what exactly makes him say "This baby looks nice"....

I say the predicaments of this world is what makes art look sort of lacking something. Is that a problem, well that topic is debatable. So what would make a perfect artist........

A true artist in his fullest potential in me opinion is one who is not constrained by the imperfections around his world and his responsibilities. Put in other words a fellow does not attach importance to the social norms and the chores he is supposed to do for the society that he lives in. Some one who has complete deniability in the end even after putting into his work something that has disturbing content,,, that is disturbing for others... Well i have to say the last statement regards art as a medium to pack a punch or SENDING A MESSAGE...

Some say too much of anything is not gud... well i really dont think this goes with art... well it is true that an artist can destroy his work by getting too 'ambitious'...
Really that needs to be looked into...... i mean if someone who spends 8 hours making a sketch can put in 2 more hours into it can make it better... or worse...
the really important thing here about coming up with something truly amazing is to have a detatchment.... not to get too personal with it. It is about not letting the feel of the finished work define who the artist is.

Most critics of todays art try to put across the definition of the work through the character of an artist. It is true that an artists person influence his work... but the reverse is rarely true. So unless a critic has a good understanding of the artists background he has no right to bridge his work with his character... The simple fact of the matter is the person is made in a much wider timespan in a much varied canvas than his work...

So then comes the obvious question of how to be a critic of art... well the answer is dont try to be... Artist improve on being judged by critics... but that comes at a cost of losing the individuality and sense of creativity... most often than not, artist who are judged try to please too many people he dont really care about.. and that my good reader is a disaster.

In effect art as a profession is bound to kill the true artist in the artist in due course of time. Because he is constrained by time, money and try to please too many people. And that leads to losing time and in time losing hope of coming up with self pleasing and creative content.

So true artist according to me are ones who are not really trained or better not taught... who are not trying to please... who are not being constrained... who are not afraid to be bold... and are not really fast... true artist my good reader are very hard to find... it may even be considered a utopian concept... But sometimes we can see real close approximations.