An Artist's Tools

Fred Astaire once claimed that he broke a lot of canes. Poets have been known to break their pens, as anger overcomes, patient study. O the tools of a great Artist's trade can be badly abused! I take that as a proof of passion, rather than any defect that's often over -psychoanalysed. Now, in marked contrast, consider if you will the amateur dabblers of these current, wayward times, I do not detect much passion or craft in the painted skeletons that they like to produce, ostensibly in, the mere twinkling of an eye. Half- baked comes to mind. Clearly, they lack the flesh of content, form and style. Thank goodness, I no longer have to deal with them. I believe it would kill me!