I agree. Quilts are ART. Hand made art objects are highly regarded now and in the past. My cousins who still live in the hills back East tell me of the unbelievable prices some of the quilters get for hand made quilts. And I won't even talk about the lovely ones the Amish make, and sell for a small king's ransom!!
My DH was an artist, and spoke of one of his cousins who was told she won a blue ribbon at a highly regarded art show. She took several family members to see her "modernistic" painting, then started screaming that they had put it upside down!! No one else could prove it one way or the other, because no one could see anything except the wild slashes of color. (I don't care much about that type of ART, but to each his/her own.)
She won first prize and a lovely blue ribbon. But she still was not a happy camper!!
Aren't we all the same? WE see our small failures in our quilts, but no one else can, even when we show others what we consider the bad parts.
Let's try to love ourselves more and appreciate what we can do, not worry about what we can NOT do. And if we can find one thing to like about another's quilt, let's tell them about it. We need to keep alive the joy in quilting, of making an art object that will be loved for a life time and beyond.