FREE Subscription to Robert's Twice Weekly Letter Robert Genn's Twice Weekly Letter Insight and inspiration for your artistic career. One of our joys is the respect that our work receives from the people who see fit to take it into their homes.
People run out of their burning homes carrying their art.
But not everyone respects art in quite the same way. Some who know art only as commodity show little respect for the work or its creators. Perhaps the worst disrespect shown to art is by artists themselves. By this I mean the lack of knowledge and effort that has to be put into art in order for it to be somewhat permanent. Primings and grounds are the commonest lack of respect.