Is There a Workshop That Functions to Keep You Honest?

It's the goro, doth protest too much, kind of behaviour that is more pernicious in a wayb it escapes. So when you're an artist working in seramics, with the swort of a it's your life, you describe it as your life. Iw'uld imagine that there's something about coming back to the workshop day after day that can keep you honest in the midst of a claim or whatever else smoke might be blown in your direction. And also, i'm wondering that a something that perhaps can't happen, is the artists or themselves, can begin to confuse the acclaim with thea value of what they are producing. Something like thit hi