And even less to do with the individual artworks. Yet viewed objectively, these fears obviously have less to do with art than they do with the artist. For many people, that alone is enough to prevent their ever getting started at all - and for those who do, trouble isn't long in coming.
Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be. Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. The line between the artist and his/her work is a fine one at best, and for the artist it feels (quite naturally) like there is no such line.
Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable at age ninety Frank Lloyd Wright was still designing, Imogen Cunningham still photographing, Stravinsky still composing, Picasso still painting.īut if making art gives substance to your sense of self, the corresponding fear is that you're not up to the task - that you can't do it, or can't do it well, or can't do it again or that you're not a real artist, or not a good artist, or have no talent, or have nothing to say.
And with good reason: your desire to make art - beautiful or meaningful or emotive art - is integral to your sense of who you are. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the push toward a 'serious' education soon exacts a heavy toll on dreams and fantasies.Yet for some the desire persists, and sooner or later must be addressed.
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