Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.
Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.
Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
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