/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6357071
>>6357442
>>6357489
Psychology and philosophy say it's important to receive recognition/attention for a healthy sense of self, so people don't go kill themselves, and instead you crab-minded people just think "Naw it's a vice, you're just needy and attention-whory." Have you wondered where that idea comes from, and for what design or purpose it's been fed to you?
>>6357150
Of course. Instead of people thinking "You must not care about art if you need attention" /ic/ should remember why Van Gogh committed suicide, and why many great creators did, or struggled with depression, alcoholism, addiction to meds, and why some of them grew to hate their works that they asked their friends to burn it all at the end. Some of those friends saved the writings, the drawings, and so forth, and the world realized it was great. The other anons are just stupid.
>tl;dr
There might be good artists, genuinely good, who give up because nobody was there to encourage them, and the world's going to be worse because of that lost potential. Better to support people, than have some shitty crabby social darwinist bullshit mentality.