What does it mean to be successful in art? Today, 2/9/07, we discussed in small part, people's individual ideas of what success is in art. From what I understood, it boiled down to one thing, it's individual. I have seen shows on television about a man who painted scenes on faulty toilet seats and has never sold one of them because he didn't want to. Is this man not a successful artists in his own terms? I'm going to refer back to last weeks blog about the freedom of choice. Why, now that we have endured the hardships of art school, do we care so much about the administrative, or monetary, value of art. It is true that as people who live in a society that revolves around economics and paperwork we are bound by the bureaucracy, but doesn't the freedom of creation and artistic percpective outweigh, or surpass that block in the road? Success in art is not how well percieved you are with your immediate peers or our distant ones, but how well you view yourself. Success if finding that happy medium within yourself that balances how much you're willing to administrate in this world, and how creative you are willing to be while bound to it. Do what you have to do to make yourself happy.
Arthur
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