ive never felt so understood before, ive been 18 for a while and i have really been trying to express my creative desires but i cant have a single original thought or feel motivated enough to take the time to learn something to express myself, i work in fast food right now and sometimes with my job i feel trapped into this headspace of not having enough time, even if i have ideas i feel motivated to make, it feels like im incapable of making the idea come to life in a beautiful and original way, i feel so inspired and passionate about the movies i watch, the music i listen to, and videos like these that i recently realized its my solution. i feel most creatively driven after discovering something new that resonates with me. so i started to explore different movies, music, and videos which helped me understand myself better. i still struggle with my problems with creativity but i feel like thats what also makes the process beautiful, finding yourself through your problems is its own great story to inspire yourself and others.
Beautifully said. It starts with recognising that you are capable of making great art. You don’t need permission to take creativity into your own hands.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. The idea that the most successful artists were all poor and tortured is a harmful LIE. Art is not worth destroying your life over. The circulation of the idea encourages (especially young and vulnerable) artists to feel justified in finding hardships in their lives and to seek them out. The idea appears to originate from people who aren't even artists themselves, but merely have an interest in art. An educated musician might know, for example, of Guillaume de Machaut, who was one of the first important composers in the canon of western European music. He was the first to complete a polyphonic setting of the mass, which was an important foundation to the works of later Palestrina, Bach, and Mozart, etc. It was his personal artistic philosophy, I'm now paraphrasing, that good music comes from the artist's happiness. The subject of the music might be happy, sad, or otherwise, but the artist must be happy in his own life for the music to be good. If the artist was not happy, the musical product would suffer. Of course, choosing to dedicate your life solely to art will bring hardships not found along other career paths, but you should not make the mistake of seeking out hardship for a creative fuel.
I’m sorry, this video didn’t really click with me, and I hope my thoughts provide some insight. I get what you’re saying and your ideas around creative-driven ambition are kind of compelling, but it’s drowned by the video supercut of the most contrived/obvious examples of “creative obsession” in pop media right now. Kanye, Whiplash, and Van Gogh are like the very first things anyone interested in art would use as examples of ambition. Maybe it’s accessible to some but it feels corny to me. I like(d) Kanye’s music and that robot scooping up oil too but I can name 6 other writers, books, musicians who speak to me more and thus are more unique for an audience starved of actual media literacy. Otherwise you just get stuck in the same artistic loops, no inspiration or innovation. I’m not trying to be harsh, I’m just asking for more of your unique voice as an artist - right now I merely see an archetype. Lost 20-something who grew up in the internet age, calls Runaway the greatest song of all time, and thinks the postmodern condition kills art, which isn’t true. Where are *you* in this world that lacks creative ambition? Are these examples really your voice and aesthetic? And if so, how can you expand beyond that? Childhood vs adulthood, artist vs world, purpose and culture, these debates have been ongoing forever. It’s your voice and your tangible inspiration that would make me want to pay attention to you. I hope to see more of it.
When I find a video essay on a random topic by a youtuber with 20k subscribers I know I'm about to have a fire meal 🔥
ive never felt so understood before, ive been 18 for a while and i have really been trying to express my creative desires but i cant have a single original thought or feel motivated enough to take the time to learn something to express myself, i work in fast food right now and sometimes with my job i feel trapped into this headspace of not having enough time, even if i have ideas i feel motivated to make, it feels like im incapable of making the idea come to life in a beautiful and original way, i feel so inspired and passionate about the movies i watch, the music i listen to, and videos like these that i recently realized its my solution. i feel most creatively driven after discovering something new that resonates with me. so i started to explore different movies, music, and videos which helped me understand myself better. i still struggle with my problems with creativity but i feel like thats what also makes the process beautiful, finding yourself through your problems is its own great story to inspire yourself and others.
Beautifully said. It starts with recognising that you are capable of making great art. You don’t need permission to take creativity into your own hands.
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I've said it once and I'll say it again. The idea that the most successful artists were all poor and tortured is a harmful LIE. Art is not worth destroying your life over. The circulation of the idea encourages (especially young and vulnerable) artists to feel justified in finding hardships in their lives and to seek them out.
The idea appears to originate from people who aren't even artists themselves, but merely have an interest in art. An educated musician might know, for example, of Guillaume de Machaut, who was one of the first important composers in the canon of western European music. He was the first to complete a polyphonic setting of the mass, which was an important foundation to the works of later Palestrina, Bach, and Mozart, etc. It was his personal artistic philosophy, I'm now paraphrasing, that good music comes from the artist's happiness. The subject of the music might be happy, sad, or otherwise, but the artist must be happy in his own life for the music to be good. If the artist was not happy, the musical product would suffer.
Of course, choosing to dedicate your life solely to art will bring hardships not found along other career paths, but you should not make the mistake of seeking out hardship for a creative fuel.
I’m sorry, this video didn’t really click with me, and I hope my thoughts provide some insight.
I get what you’re saying and your ideas around creative-driven ambition are kind of compelling, but it’s drowned by the video supercut of the most contrived/obvious examples of “creative obsession” in pop media right now. Kanye, Whiplash, and Van Gogh are like the very first things anyone interested in art would use as examples of ambition. Maybe it’s accessible to some but it feels corny to me.
I like(d) Kanye’s music and that robot scooping up oil too but I can name 6 other writers, books, musicians who speak to me more and thus are more unique for an audience starved of actual media literacy. Otherwise you just get stuck in the same artistic loops, no inspiration or innovation.
I’m not trying to be harsh, I’m just asking for more of your unique voice as an artist - right now I merely see an archetype. Lost 20-something who grew up in the internet age, calls Runaway the greatest song of all time, and thinks the postmodern condition kills art, which isn’t true.
Where are *you* in this world that lacks creative ambition? Are these examples really your voice and aesthetic? And if so, how can you expand beyond that? Childhood vs adulthood, artist vs world, purpose and culture, these debates have been ongoing forever. It’s your voice and your tangible inspiration that would make me want to pay attention to you. I hope to see more of it.
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