chocotaur:
When I see those posts that are like âMy artist friend never thinks theyâre good enough,...
When I see those posts that are like âMy artist friend never thinks theyâre good enough, but I keep telling them they are!â or a recent one where someone super buff was lifting weights, saying âIâm still so weakâ and was tagged âartistsâ, I feel pressed to ask:
But do you know why artists do that?
Where did the self depreciation come from? The aggressive competitiveness and need to outdo themselves? I mean, personal issues and built in anxiety or perfectionism aside?
Itâs because itâs super hard to succeed in art, which is, on an industrial level, exploiting and poorly paying, so you have to be the very best to get in, and moreover, youâre in a society that constantly tells you that your work isnât worth their money, that itâs not a real job. So you enslave, day and night, desperate to compensate for it so people will go âOh, okay, maybe it is worth it.â
