being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws. — Robert Venosa
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being an artist — Robert Venosa
November 13th, 2011 2:37 pm
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Yes, as an artist, you’re going a way of outlaws.
And it’s really exciting. It’s nerve-wracking. For the artist himself and its nerve-wracking for the loved-ones.
The artist’s way processes differently then a commercial apprenticeship. Never that straight-line (compare Julia Camerons book “The artist’s way”). It’s a spiritual way, this gang.
I can see “this gang of outlaws” when I look back to my personal background.
My parents tried to put me off becoming a full-time singer. They tried to tell me, I would hit nowhere with it, except on the streets.
They don’t want you to go your own way.. What would it mean for their lives?!? …
So you don’t get applause, you get a spoke in your wheel and they ask:
‘What will people think?!’.
I didn’t have the courage for a long time to go completely this way, my own way.
This gang of outlaws.
Now I’m glad, to go my way, I ‘d chosen.
It’s exciting. But this way doesn’t lead you by oases around only.
Sometimes you have to go midway through the desert and a haunting long long time it seems as it wouldn’t happen anything… nothings for to process.. its’ kind of boring, dreary.
That’s why I believe, as an artist you got to find yourself a good way to handle this peroid of rest, carefully.
Got to acclimate that the ocean is very very smooth sometimes.
Best regards
to be an artist to me means to transpose thought & emotion into a tangible form that can be shared (IE – to share a piece of yourself with the world).