Don't look at me.

When I would draw things as a kid, as long as people approved of my style, and were complimentary to me, I would be very uninhibited. I was very proud of my art and how people understood its beauty. That was when I was a kid, and I didn't do very much "exploratory art".

Now, as an adult, I have noticed that as I develop my style and experiment with style and medium, and I stray from what is percieved as "normal" art, the people who watch me work and do not understand the concept of what I am doing tend to misinterpret what I am doing, and feel they also should comment that what I am doing doesn't make sense to them.
"That doesn't look right." they say, cocking their head to one side. "Why are you using that color?" they add, with fascination that I would use the wrong color for something. These are the people who don't understand art, who end up squashing it as it is being created, because they haven't got the tolerance to sit by and watch someone color outside the lines.

You cannot have ground breaking art if you concentrate solely on "safe" art production. I have to get over the fact that these critics are not the ones I am creating for.