artist

... if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at a blank canvas or daydreaming with dry brushes in your hand, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women or men in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there & do it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to do it like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to show it to your husband or wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to myspace or any online networking outlet or to anybody at all, you're not ready. don't be like so many artists, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves artists, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self - love. the world has yawned themselves to sleep over their kind. don't add to that. don't do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was...