When this happens some begin to compare their creativity to those around them, they obsess over the business that surrounds the art. They wonder why certain works are published, why others are exhibited, why everyone seems to be copying every one else. In time, some begin to doubt the significance of their own work.
They become disillusioned and often bitter. Soon they do far less of what they once loved most. This is hard to avoid for some of us but not for all and this should not deter you. Any image is just another form of the person who makes it, and since there is no one else like you, how will we know what there is still left to learn?