You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.
The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.
I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.