Find out if Art is Your 'Life's Work'. Or not!
Fields floats the idea that your purpose might better be revealed through life experience. Actually getting out there and trying stuff. Not reading about it or learning the theory. Doing. Sometimes it's a case of weeding things out. (I won't be applying for a job as a secretary any time soon...) And of course, why should there be just one purpose? Most people I know have transitioned through several careers, sometimes remarkably different. I guess a purist would say that purpose is about who you are, not what you do, but for most people this translates into career - how you spend the bulk of your day, earning a living.
Another problem I see with the search for a single Big Answer is that not only are people trying to come to momentous decisions based on someone else's ideas (of what a particular career involves; or whether the answers to those personality questions will be truthful and informative, for instance) but that they are are also very vague. The notion of 'Artist' for instance. I challenge anyone to find a common thread among a random group of artists. You could say 'making art' but immediately get into a debate on 'What is Art' - you'll have knitters making alien creatures, metalworkers spray painting car doors in their spare time, traditional artists painting portraits and people wrapping monuments in silk.
Is some test in the back of a book, some career workshop, going to identify all of these people as Artists with a Capital 'A'? I can't help but think that that creative knitter would have found herself classified as a seamstress, and the metalworker is going to be spray painting custom cars with somebody else's designs (and wondering why his creativity feels stifled). Art happens in front of an easel (after a degree in Fine Art), doesn't it...?
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Indeed, even if you can make a small sketch in pencil or charcoal it is better than nothing. Keep the artist imagination alive.
Quite simply, Art is a State of Being.
In my opinion, Art is defined as a Passion for Life. For some people, it is through traditional painting, or car painting or whatever. The key is that if you are living your life with passion, that IS your art.It is actually the Art Experience, not the painting or knitting or sketching, that is the true definition.
Art to me is finding the beauty in small things as well as large and being able translate those feelings into something wonderful for others to enjoy. Everyone has their own way of seeing and their own way of expressing it in many different forms and mediums. Just Create!
art is what you perceive things to be, and showing other people how it looks from your point of view. it’s totally subjective, totally free, and a total discrimination. and, uh, it should be fun, too.
art for me is an outward expression of what I perceive through my creative ideas, no matter what the topic or the medium or the training, Expressions of our creativity are different for each individual, thats whats makes it unique and should always be fun!
Art is the gift of creation and individuality.
The gift of producing creative art requires a mind boundry to be broken Because we need to have an edge of insanity to change what is to what is now…..
Thats what i think anyway