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Yep. =/ Honestly, ignore it. People have a tendency to be rather insensitive - they might mean well, or otherwise they are just trying to be trolls. I can't really name a time writing-wise, but maybe with art, yes. Somebody will just walk up and say exactly what you quoted in response to my drawing... ._.

One- I'm sorry on the previous times I have commented on your avatars and pics the same way as ther others that say your drawings look like memes. So I'm sorry for that,

 

Two-Peach is right, just ignore it,

 

Three- As a famous writer once said

 

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it,"-C. S. Lewis

If I'm compared to someone's classic works (such as when a painting of mine was compared to Van Gogh) I don't mind, although I'm not a fan of being compared to someone on the internet. It would especially annoy me if I got a book published and the company forced the words "in the style of Tolkien" or "what Star Wars fans have been waiting for" to appear on the back cover of my book. I'm out to create my own thing. I'd like my writing to be critically acclaimed as "written as only Kraggh can write".

 

As for art, yeah, comparisons to Van Gogh and Renaissance art are just fine. Fortunately, since I don't abstract heavily I've never been compared to someone on the internet, but I know exactly how you feel because I know exactly what I would think of such comparisons being applied to my own work.

 

Also, I was actually about to paraphrase that C.S. Lewis quote. It appears that he has the same philosophy as me with regards to originality. To me, the various practises that we call art should be geared toward expressing some sort of truth, and that's what's really important.

 

 

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@Peach 00: Seems like people rather tend to associate visual things with other things, and in literature not so much (if that makes any sense)

 

@Zacax:

1 - forgiven. =) No matter how it came across, I am not 'mad' at someone in particular, it's just eh basic idea behind it that makes me a bit unhappy.

 

2 - okay, if both of you say so

 

3 - where do you always find those quotes, they're truly beautiful. :3

 

@Jean Valjean: Mhm, I agree with you on all accounts. Really do.

@Taka: Thanks Taka Nuvia , I read a lot of C.S Lewis stuff, and I love to research about him and thus I find his amazing quotes

 

@Jean:

 

Actually, I love being compared to C.S. Lewis or Tolkien, mainly because it makes me feel like I can be a great writer like them, and I typically improve that way so I can become a better writer.

 

But I understand

(Though it's never happened to me, given I don't work on visual things, I can understand how you must feel. I guess it's even worse given just how scratchy the "memes" look. They're not artistic or good looking, they're meant to be funny, so getting compared to them isn't the greatest thing to hear.)

 

(On the subject of getting compared to things when you're out to create your own style, it reminds me of something I've been seeing a lot with novels. Lately, every thriller novel that's been good has had the author described as the "Next Stieg Larsson". Keigo Higashino, whose novels I really love, got called the "Japanese Stieg Larsson" and I think that's insane because their styles were so wholly different. Yeah, Larsson may have been a great writer but that doesn't mean that every crime story ever has to be compared to him, even if they're Swedish, which marketers seem to love pointing out.)