----- Original Message ----- From: "Qkano" <snapper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:58 AM Subject: Re: 6th August Gallery - comments > > <Keep taking the photos, they present a challenge, one which I did not > perceive and is not my style.> > Don't worry - I will. But the day I start to call myself an artist ... please shoot me. > > > bob > Why do you dislike the title 'artist' ? Is it due to the number of people who have subverted the title, for me people like Tracy Ulman and her unmade bed ? Or the pile of old tyres which was stacked on the embankment I seem to remember and called Art. Or the putting up of swimming pool signs round the town of Norwich, similarly to road signs, and calling it artistic ! Richard. r.wrigley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated" Poul Anderson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/68 - Release Date: 10/08/2005