The Artist Doesn’t Need To Suffer
August 1st, 2006 by Laura Moncur in MotivationI hate this quote. Shame on Pearl Buck for making it sound like an artist must BLEED her art in order to have a “truly creative” mind. Don’t believe her.
An artist doesn’t need to suffer. If you are an artist, creating happily, you might feel a little like a fraud if you read Pearl’s quotation. You might feel like you’re not really an artist because a touch isn’t a blow to you. Sometimes a friend is a friend and a lover is a lover. You don’t need to be overly emotional or overly sensitive to be an artist.
All you need to do to be an artist is to create art. You need to create art and keep on creating art your entire life. You don’t need some strange, unknown, inward urgency to create. You just need to create. That’s it. You don’t need to starve. You don’t need to be overly sensitive and you certainly don’t need to bleed.
August 2nd, 2006 at 1:11 am
The quote doesn’t mention anything about an artist having to BLEED to be truly creative does it?. The only thing which may be a bit overdone is “failure is death”, which i feel is just re-enforcing the view that an artist is a sensitive being. Nothing is said about a need to bleed to create…