Archive for October, 2006
I have to admit, I can’t always be creative. It’s frustrating to me when I want to do something - doing some art for example - but I just can’t. It’s hard for me to accept that some days are so creative - and I feel so good that way - and some days are not. I feel I’m missing something when I can’t create, because of time, because I’m tired, because me head is stuck, because…because… excuses are easy to find. And I don’t like it. I like the feeling of pure creation, when my mind is 100% focused on my art, when time disappears like if I was drunk or something.
October 6th, 2006
Vincent van Gogh, the eldest son of a Dutch Reformed minister and a bookseller’s daughter, pursued various vocations, including that of an art dealer and clergyman, before deciding to become an artist at the age of twenty-seven.
October 5th, 2006
Interesting comment about wanting to be an artist, and feeling weird to called youself an artist when you don’t seem to be one 100% of your time…”And it bothered me to declare myself something, but not be it. Again, I felt I wasn’t being real.” -Alex Beauchamp. I do claim to be one, but I’m a designer 50% of my time. Isn’t design some kind of art? ……….. No. Maybe. I don’t know. I just feel art is a really big chunk of my life and myself.
So. I’m an artist.
“I think one thing I’ve learned from all of this though, is that as an artist or writer, you don’t ever feel 100% accomplished, finished, secure, or that feeling of “I’ve made it and now it’s enough.” All the artists that I’ve ever talked to, have echoed this. Each day can be scary or wonderful. The only difference is, you feel better about it all.”-Alex Beauchamp
October 5th, 2006
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how… The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille.
October 4th, 2006
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