Thank you to the lovely person who left a comment about my post discussing rejections.
I love those stories of writers who struggled to get their work published and who are now considered classics. On the other hand, stories like Vincent Van Gogh scare me.
I love those stories of writers who struggled to get their work published and who are now considered classics. On the other hand, stories like Vincent Van Gogh scare me.
Although he wasn’t looking for what is traditionally thought of as success, was content to give his art away and specifically wanted it to go to working class families who could not afford art, his life’s outcome is not how I want my life or my writing career to become. True, he is revered now, and his paintings go for millions (billions?), but this is all after the fact. Never during his life did he ever sell one painting. I believe he died penniless and with mental problems.
In many ways I think this world we are in, fast paced, materialistic makes it even harder to live only for one’s art.It takes money to live, so the fact that artists—whatever form they may take—want to be paid for their work is not vanity
but necessity.When a person takes the time to create something, hopefully working hard and giving all they can, don’t they deserve some sort of recognition, be it monetary or something else?I think they do. As an artist, when you are working alone or even with a writing group, a little recognition can do a lot to foster the most important thing for an artist--FAITH!
In many ways I think this world we are in, fast paced, materialistic makes it even harder to live only for one’s art.It takes money to live, so the fact that artists—whatever form they may take—want to be paid for their work is not vanity
but necessity.When a person takes the time to create something, hopefully working hard and giving all they can, don’t they deserve some sort of recognition, be it monetary or something else?I think they do. As an artist, when you are working alone or even with a writing group, a little recognition can do a lot to foster the most important thing for an artist--FAITH!
