I guess my point is that people may paint for different reasons and I may have been looking at the comments from how I would have felt if I had received them.
I paint because it is relaxing for me and I am not looking to paint the perfect model every time. Also, anything to do with the visual arts in any way is extremely difficult for me. I have gone from being a total crapfest as a painter to passable, but it has taken me ten years to get there. I have no wish to get any better and take this part of the hobby for what it is to me, relaxing.