hence the danger of complimenting artists. Supposedly, the only
  good artist is a suffering artist. A confident and happy artist
  is a scammer. How true is this? I dunno. Seems to be an
  elaborate justification for critics to be mean and cruel to
  artists. "It's good for you that we tear apart your work, piece
  by piece. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger you know and
  we're improving the art world by being assholes".

  Oh well. I dunno much about much. wait.. I think I just
  described the state of Education as well. Replace artist with
  student and critic with teacher. Yeah. I think I just unlocked
  Common Core and their new "theory" of "Grit". *sigh*.

  Also applies to standard military breakdown/rebuild techniques.
  Maybe they're right. I hope they're wrong. Still, are critics
  making an Artist Army?