I can’t remember, now, where I read or heard it, but Jean Cocteau said, “Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like—then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.”
Jennifer Lunden at Poets and Writers (sent to me by my artist buddy SEL)
Some works held my interest and envoked feeling or questions