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't make it in the industry. If they can't, you can'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'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're an educator and you come across this thread, remember: what you say matters.