> The point they were making was that the 'taste' to judge good from bad is inherent in a good artist, but the ability to produce good art develops over a long

> The point they were making was that the 'taste' to judge good from bad is inherent in a good artist, but the ability to produce good art develops over a long time. Taste develops as a function of accumulating knowledge, preferably from making art. > It's not until you've been working for a while that your ability catches up with your judgement. So if you grant for the moment what I wrote above, you'll see there's an alternate way of thinking. That is, if an artist is comfortable making art at an introductory level, their taste will be refined the more art they make. That refined taste feeds back into a virtuous cycle of making more and better art which further refines the test. Alternatively, the artists you describe are reinforcing frustration at nearly every level (my own experience being such artists eventually are unable to break out of that frustrated, self-critical mindset).