The way these readings have been structured really grew on me. Especially in this Art and Fear book where the readings are divided into smaller headings. Well in todays reading we are talking about how the artist feels about others when doing his work. The three topics discussed are understanding, acceptance and approval. The first fear comes out when the artists fails to believe he would be understood by the wider audience. We as people like to be understood and the artist is not an exception in this case. As the reading says it is a basic need of people. On the other side we have acceptance and approval, whilst both words seem similar acceptance means that people accept/recognize our work while approval means that people like it. But people don’t have to like our work in order for us to do our best and continue working on what we want. For example some of our guests dizzle and dabble in experimental music, and that’s far away from what I like. That does not mean that I don’t recognize their passion and approve of their work 🙂