your critics are always going to be
there
and the more successful you become
the more criticism you'll
receive
especially from those
who are most desperate
for a taste of the same success
you have
achieved.
but the thing you must always remember
regardless of the criticism
is to try to continue to get
better at whatever it is that
you do.
I think what bothers the critics the most
however
is to see someone succeed
after coming out of
nowhere
instead of from their very
special circle of the waiting-to-be-
annointed.
critics and failed creators
dominate the landscape
and the more you successfully harness
the natural power of your
art
the more they are going to
insist
through intrigue and
through their rankling
pitiful
malice
that
you were never very much
to begin with
and that now, of course, you're even
less than
that.
the critics are always going to be
there and
when they stop, if ever, then
you will know
that your own brief day in the sun
is over.
