There must be some deep frustration in him as he works, trying to correct what can never be saved. So he paints in a hurried way, not wanting to see what he’s made. That’s why his canvases are such a mess. There is no compass in his soul, so his vision becomes chaotic. One can sense the envy in his heart, yet he doesn’t even know what in other painters to envy! Unable to pull off beauty, he hides behind an ugliness that he calls beauty, and his canvases turn out shameful, and so the critics shame him, for he makes us ashamed. Then he continues to make his paintings which have nothing to offer,
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