How to be an Artist:

While recently visiting my mother in Florida, my brother showed me an interesting post. It was entitled "How to be an Artist" One of the rules was "Write the book you want to read." Which made me think, how about live the life you want to read about? Can you do that AND be the artist you long to be? The post also said artists must be boring in order to accomplish their art. Where does said artist draw inspiration from then? How does one solve this problem? If I must dedicate all of my time to creating my art, where will I get inspiration? A tortured mind? Is it possible to balance the tortured artist's mind with the experience of a well lived life? To see so much madness within the world would surely calm down the insanity within, n'est pas? Is it possible to be completely happy with oneself, live a fulfilling and happy life, AND create art, any kind of art, through living and experiencing life? An experiment in living..

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