Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
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Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
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