casually realizing the reason I never make art anymore is bc a professor I had in college showed a class I was in a beautiful portfolio of environment art and then told us: "none of you are as good as this person and they can& #39;t make it in the industry. If they can& #39;t, you can& #39;t."

Just spent an hour crying about this while talking about it with some friends.

how fucked. As soon as I left school and wasn& #39;t literally required to make art anymore for a grade I just stopped. Because what was the point? I was never gonna be good enough anyway.

if you& #39;re an educator and you come across this thread, remember: what you say matters.