Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art.
Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones. You have the ability to make art.Īnd for me, and for so many of the people I have known, that’s been a lifesaver. Here’s a little bit of inspiration from the above talk:Īnd remember that whatever discipline you are in, whether you are a musician or a photographer, a fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer, a designer, whatever you do you have one thing that’s unique. Since I started this week talking about high school and college graduations and there’s been an educational theme throughout the week, it makes sense to end the week with a graduation speech.
The University of the Arts Keynote Address 2012 And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.”
A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. “When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure.
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