Well, as an artist, I know very well most of other artists deal with the same problems I do: Which is creativity.
Creativity is an issue that sometimes may lead us to not creating anything for a long long time; when we lack creativity, it feels like we're useless - like a car without diesel, or a heart without blood. But let us not get ahead of ourselves on this delicate subject matter.
I've been dealing lately with creativiy issues and it is the most suffocating thing an artist can feel - but I noticed something very important: it wasn't the lack of creativity that was suffocating me; it was the unconscious thought of obligation to create something.
Art must not be an obligation - except when you're paid for it, for art par excellence is not a commodity/merchandise/good; ART IS USELESS, AND IT SHALL BE USELESS FOR ALL ETERNITY.
One can argument saying that "art is not useless for it satisfies one's feelings". Well, my answer to that is: Do not treat art as a burden, as a job, a charge, a obligation/responsability towards others - make it as to satisfy your own need, your own well being.
"But Meuny, I feel obligated to make art for myself sometimes!" - Well, then go find something else to do! Art is not a job, you shouldn't seek efficiency, you should seek excellence. If you don't feel like your art represent what your gut demands, it is not art, it is whatever but art!
Art must come from the gut, not from orders. It must be what your body, your soul, your stomach demands, not what some meaningless principle of obligation demands. You're not a machine, you're a human being; you must be what you feel like to be, when you feel like to be. Freedom is to be whatever whenever.
Remember: Art is to be; To do Art is to Become.
You're not a machine. You're not dead; do not kill your will to be an artist by trying to become a machine - that is why we must fight against AI, for art is not to be machine, art is to be whatever the being wants. Art is the most corporeal thing there is.
Please, I beg of every single of you: Be free of the obligation of creation.
Personally, I'd love to see your true self, I really do.
This has been Meuny.
Meuny
I know how capitalism works. Art is a thing to be sold in this society.
But I don't give half a damn. WE'RE NOT FACTORY WORKERS THAT MUST PRODUCE NON-STOP. WE'RE ANIMALS, HUMAN BEINGS. WE REST, WE EAT, WE LAUGH, WE CRY, WE'RE BORN AND WE DIE.
ART IS TO REST, ART IS TO EAT, ART IS TO LAUGH, ART IS TO CRY, ART IS TO BE BORN, ART IS TO BE DEAD - ART IS TO BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORCE YOURSELF TO DO ART! NEVER!