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Originally Posted by Steven Sweeney
If nothing else comes of this thread, it may be an appreciation of the fact that you are the artist, and you are in control of your artistic expression, and you, not a photograph, are responsible for what you put on the canvas (and for what you put on your palette, and so on).
An analogous pitfall that is heard by every teacher of fiction writing is that, well, since it "really happened!" (or, since it's in the photo), it is therefore a believable and good story. That is as false in visual as in written art.
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From "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art" by Madeleine L'Engle:
"Credibility in creativity is a hard lesson to learn, and I