- [[top-notch]] painters paint what they think is good.
- A second-rate painter paints what the public thinks is good.
- The third-rate painter paints what he thinks “the world thinks is good.
explanation
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Third-rate painters paint what they think “the public will think is good,” but in reality it is not.
- self-serving assumption
- If you can actually draw “what the public thinks is good”, you are promoted to second class.
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But first-class is not an extension of this. As long as it is measured by the world’s evaluation, it stops at second class.
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A common misconception: “If you paint what you think is good, you’re top-notch.”
- You’ve got your logic backwards.
- Paint only what you think is good and often die unappreciated.
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I’m trying to find the source of this because I remember seeing it in something, but I haven’t found it.
- Pointing out that it is Fernando Pessoa.
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A first-rate poet says what he actually feels, a second-rate poet says what he thinks he feels, and a third-rate poet says what he thinks he must feel
- Quite similar.
- I guess I read someone else’s modification/explanation of this as the original story, and that further denatured it for me.
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- Pointing out that it is Fernando Pessoa.
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Third-rate consultants speak by example
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Second-rate consultants speak with data.
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Leading consultants speak with their hearts.
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Discontinuous growth is not an extension of fact.
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Related Topics. - Pleasing the masses is evil.
Other examples of trisection humans - Great people talk about ideas.
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