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bonsaiTALK Neophyte
Join Date: Sep-2006
Posts: 7
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A couple more thoughts on the subject...
If bonsai is truly an art, and you are at all skilled in training them, you are a bonsai artist. Don't be afraid to admit it. If you tend a garden, you are a gardener. If you paint houses, you are a painter. If you make art, you are an artist. All this talk of pretentious label making is wrong, in my opinion.
The artist decides what is art, not the critic. The critic decides whether it is good or bad art.
Calling yourself a master, when you are obviously an apprentice, would be the definition of pretentious. Calling yourself anything but an artist, when it is obvious you are an artist, is just as silly.
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