Comments on: Art Starts Ugly! http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/05/art-starts-ugly/ A resource for artists to learn and share creative marketing tecniques and anecdotes. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Natalie Gelman http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/05/art-starts-ugly/#comment-213 Natalie Gelman Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:08 +0000 http://magicwoodworks.com/blog/?p=208#comment-213 Those are beautiful! the 700th follower should invite us all over for wine. But then we will finish it and we wont need the cork! Those are beautiful! the 700th follower should invite us all over for wine. But then we will finish it and we wont need the cork!

]]> By: Katherine http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/05/art-starts-ugly/#comment-177 Katherine Wed, 28 May 2008 12:43:52 +0000 http://magicwoodworks.com/blog/?p=208#comment-177 Maybe, too, the point is that you can't always see things as they will be, and you have to trust in the process and keep working at it, knowing that it will be worth it in the end. I think the closest comparison I can find in my own craft is the knitting of lace -- while you're working, it looks all scrunched up and pathetic and, frankly, ugly. It's only when you wash the piece and pin it out that you can see the true beauty of it. But you have to keep working and have faith in that final step to reveal what was hidden in the lumpy sack that came off the knitting needles... Maybe, too, the point is that you can’t always see things as they will be, and you have to trust in the process and keep working at it, knowing that it will be worth it in the end.

I think the closest comparison I can find in my own craft is the knitting of lace — while you’re working, it looks all scrunched up and pathetic and, frankly, ugly. It’s only when you wash the piece and pin it out that you can see the true beauty of it. But you have to keep working and have faith in that final step to reveal what was hidden in the lumpy sack that came off the knitting needles…

]]> By: Joe Cascio http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/05/art-starts-ugly/#comment-176 Joe Cascio Wed, 28 May 2008 10:10:59 +0000 http://magicwoodworks.com/blog/?p=208#comment-176 One of the most insightful comments I ever heard about art was from a fashion designer whose name escapes me. It went some thing like, "Fashion is at first considered beautiful, but in a few years is thought to be ugly. Art is at first considered ugly, but in time is seen to be beautiful." One of the most insightful comments I ever heard about art was from a fashion designer whose name escapes me. It went some thing like, “Fashion is at first considered beautiful, but in a few years is thought to be ugly. Art is at first considered ugly, but in time is seen to be beautiful.”

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