[ethbr0]

+1! The danger of not shipping is not that it allows you to demand purity of vision, but that it completely removes any user feedback mechanism.

And no one, no matter how brilliant, is right about 100% of things, 100% of the time. Reality is simply too complex.

Real Artists Ship.

Truly Great Artists Ship, Listen, and Adapt.

[balsam]

I am glad that Van Gogh didnt have a user feedback mechanism? Or maybe God was his only User?

[Karrot_Kream]

Van Gogh didn't develop in an artistic or cultural vacuum. He received lots of criticism over the years and worked with the Parisian avant garde. He had peers to receive feedback from.

[balsam]

True artists ship to real artists..“Make things that people who’d like to make things people want want” (Like this Website). The unreasonable effectiveness of higher order recommendations.

[sizzle]

Didn’t he cut his ear off after fighting with his roommate

[balsam]

His roommate the successful artist Paul Gauguin? Tried to borrow Sunflowers but

“Van Gogh was upset and replied that Gauguin had absolutely no right to make this request: "I am definitely keeping my sunflowers in question. He has two of them already, let that hold him. And if he is not satisfied with the exchange he has made with me, he can take back his little Martinique canvas, and his self-portrait sent me from Brittany, at the same time giving me back both my portrait and the two sunflower canvases which he has taken to Paris. So if he ever broaches this subject again, I've told you just how matters stand".

[sizzle]

Yes this! Thank you for confirming it, remembered learning it at a museum in Paris

[wizzwizz4]

Interactive art is different to non-interactive art.

[funcDropShadow]

> Truly Great Artists Ship, Listen, and Adapt.

Many great artists, think painters, couldn't care less whether other people liked their works or not.