Innovative and creative people are often
called impulsive and bizarre. This is what I
believe to be one of the burdens of being
gifted with a mind that sees, understands
and interprets certain things differently to the
norm of how society views it. An artist is
without a doubt, a visionary and with vision
comes a requirement to dream beyond the
known. Planning on how you will get to that
unfathomable dream is just as important as
having the dream.
Passion plays a big role in the work that
artists produce and that is what gives each
artist their edge. We relate to the artists and
what they give us based on the reliability of
their work. Your work needs to move us,
educate us, inspire us or start a conversation
among us. This passion is what drives most
artists to do what they are do, however if you
want to live off your art and make it your
career, passion can only contribute to your
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work and provide a slight driving force to
keep you going. A plan is what will ensure
that you keep going, even when
experiencing internal struggles.
I once read a saying which goes "If you don't
know where you are going, any road will take
you there" .This could not be truer. As an
artist, trying to make it in the dog eat dog
world of entertaiment and art there are many
roads which you can take to many places,
you could be a one hit wonder and your
song, book or poem could be remembered
for years to come but every time someone
plays or reads your work the words "where
has he/she ended up" could feature as a
good conversation starter, you could get into
the scene of being everywhere and appear
at every social event, you could make a
mockery of your private life and splash it all
over the media for us to familiarise with you
and you could treat your art as work, respect
it as such and separate the work from the
your private life.
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