I don’t think it’s pointless, but people don’t understand how rare it is to “make it” in an art career, as in being able to support themselves with just that line of work. Same with music.
@Flenflyys No question. I have been unemployed for over a year now and I'm finally exploring my creative side and passions. I'm forging my path and seeking others to lift up as I know how difficult it can be and important it is to support one another. Thanks for commenting.
If art was pointless, no human culture would make it. In fact, all do, and lots of it.
Yes, there is a tension that art is made more for love of it than money, and serious artists wish they could make money from it, so they can spend their whole lives doing nothing but art hence becoming brilliant at it --
but -
the very creativity which makes it possible to be an artist is the same faculty that makes it possible to adapt to practical needs and find ways to both earn a living and make art - and they don't have to be by the same means.
It's with wonder that the artists and dreamers seek to find the answers to the questions... about the heart, mind, body, soul, spirit, space, the universe and so much more.
I've been at concerts where I've felt so inspired and so profoundly moved by the sounds of the music I've heard.
Let's continue seeking, creating, supporting one another... I stopped dreaming after working in corporate America for nearly three decades. And I'm thankful for the world to stop spinning for a bit so I could jump off, take a good look at myself, and begin the transformation I needed to get back on again. I'm a work in progress. And I've got a lot of work ahead of me. But I am starting to dream again.
@hasmita2 Thanks for reading it... it's important to provoke thought... in a productive way. The comment in the title is necessary to evoke the emotion and begin the dialogue and hopefully positive conversation. And here you are. 🤗
I don't think an Artist would consider himself to have a 'Job'; likewise, I don't think an Artist would consider it's his / her career either. Those in careers tend to separate their work from their Social life whilst at the same time the same people might force what is their Career into a conversation in explaining who, and what, they are.
A vocation is a calling; not too unlike a career except we gain the greatest satisfaction and fulfilment from a vocation and time spent inside the inner workings of their chosen vocation. Those involved in vocational enterprises are less likely to boast about money itself, whilst saying they consider the deeper satisfaction is fulfilment, happiness and satisfaction. Money isn't a bad thing, but rather it's a bonus gained in following their vocation.
Who'd have a job if they could entertain a custom-made vocation?
@Psycho And if someone fails at the something he/she loves, it may bring him/her closer to the greater gifts and opportunities not previously considered. Sometimes that's just how it works.
