Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking and you’re right. I don’t get invited to many parties. I’ve been told that people don’t like my sarcastic attitude, but I think the real problem is that people are just too busy being unhappy to have time for someone with my warm sunshiny personality.

Well, gotta go. I’m in a hurry to get started on my new plan to set up a treatment center for children who have been to your site and have been irreparably harmed. I hear there’s lot of money to be made in rehabilitating children who have been exposed to nudity and sex before their 18th birthday.

By the way, I like your work. Don’t pay any attention to CDS. A hundred years ago, CDS would probably have told Picasso he should stop painting what he feels and start painting what he sees. In fact, it seems a bit unlikely that a “real artist” would even make such a stunningly ignorant remark.

The value of art lies not in the way a subject is rendered but in the ability of an artist to share the emotional response they have to that subject.

Van Gogh’s early works were much more true to life and traditional than those he created towards the end of his life, but it is that later work, some complete with lines around the subject, that allows us to glimpse his passion and the vision he had of the world around him.

A true artist paints what THEY see and feel, for themselves, and not for anyone else. That’s what separates the craftsman from the artist.