Most amateur artists will spend 90% of their time creating Piss. It's raw, ugly, unrefined garbage. Nobody wants to see, hear or read it, including the artist. It just had to come out. It's piss. Piss may be safely discarded and never spoken of again. Perhaps in a waste basket, Recycle Bin, or a car fire.
With some practice and dedication, some artists can elevate their craft to Muck. Muck is okay. Muck isn't great, by any stretch. Muck is largely useless to anybody but the artist. In fact, others may often confuse Muck with Piss. It's somewhat subjective. However, muck still has no business being shared, so it`s the artist's own fault for finding themselves defending their Muck to others. Muck is to be kept private. Nobody else has any business nor interest in another's Muck. However, we should be careful to appreciate Muck for what it is. Muck is an essential step in the process of creating Shit. Muck is the swirling medium of potential salable creativity. If one is lucky, one can sometimes find good building blocks for Shit in one's Muck. Muck is highly unsatisfactory creativity, but it does not make one feel ill or suicidal the same way that Piss does. Muck is generally worth keeping. There is often a strong desire to share muck with others in the hopes of positive feedback. This however often results in quite the opposite: negative feedback. It is important for the artist to be aware at all times of the potential of their particular craft, and to then guage their own work accordingly. If an artist is unable to distinguish between Muck and Shit, they will forever find themselves churning out little more than Piss. Likewise, if an artist is unable to separate their Muck from their Piss, they will never be able to enjoy the experience of sharing a good piece of Shit with others.
As a critic, you must always be on the lookout for Muck masquerading as Shit. You should rarely have to deal with Piss on a professional level.
Shit the height of an artist's craft. It is the ultimate goal of a long, arduous journey through Piss and Muck. At the end of the process, if successful, the artist experiences a feeling of joy and emptiness at the same time as the Shit leaves their body and is presented to the World. A true artist will spend innumerable amounts of time and effort creating pieces of Shit for which they are proud. Many artists will spend their entire careers and/or lives attempting to create Shit and still not succeed beyond their Muck. Often these artist do not spend enough time exploring the Shit of other successful artists. When exploring the world of Art and the Shit in it, it is important to remember in the back of one`s mind all of the time and work that went into creating the pieces of Shit you enjoy. We should all be thankful for the immeasurable amounts of Piss and Muck that we are spared from having to wade through, as the artist has, in order to enjoy the final piece of Shit the way we do.
From Piss to Shit, we should all appreciate where real art comes from.
