Approval

sacred spaces
ruhl-benda 2008
"The lesson here is simply that courting approval, even that of peers, puts a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the audience. Worse yet, the audience is seldom in a position to grant (or withhold) approval in the one issue that really counts-namely, whether or not you're making progress in your work." from the book Art and Fear by James Orland and David Bayles