Being the true artist is just like being in love... by awispa

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Being the true artist is just like being in love...
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&#8195;There are many myths about what an&nbsp;artist should or&nbsp;should not&nbsp;do. I, for example, was criticized in&nbsp;the art school for using photo references, and later in&nbsp;the university because my&nbsp;concepts did not correspond with the understanding of&nbsp;my&nbsp;teacher. In&nbsp;general, the society has some ideas about "right" and "wrong" painting and painters... But the only quality that's really necessary for the artist is&nbsp;to&nbsp;rely on&nbsp;oneself, on&nbsp;one's clear vision "how it&nbsp;should&nbsp;be," what the picture should look like. A&nbsp;kind of&nbsp;visual clairgnosis and clairvoyance.<br><br>

&#8195;On&nbsp;this topic Russian artist and philosopher-mystic Roerich spoke well in&nbsp;one of&nbsp;his fairy tales, the essence of&nbsp;which is&nbsp;that when the artist came to&nbsp;his teacher with questions, whether he&nbsp;needed to&nbsp;change the composition in&nbsp;his work, whether to&nbsp;add gold, etc., the teacher replied, "Do&nbsp;it&nbsp;the way it&nbsp;should&nbsp;be.&quot; After another such answer the student asked, "What does it&nbsp;mean, how it&nbsp;should&nbsp;be?" The teacher replied to&nbsp;him, "It&nbsp;can only mean one thing, it&nbsp;should be&nbsp;beautiful." "But what does beautiful mean?" the disciple asked. And then the teacher told him that if&nbsp;he&nbsp;does not know what is&nbsp;beautiful, he&nbsp;should immediately stop painting and change his occupation.

&#8195;This clairvoyance of&nbsp;"how it&nbsp;should&nbsp;be" and "how is&nbsp;beautiful" does not depend on&nbsp;technical skills, and, being much deeper than them, it&nbsp;can be&nbsp;inherent in&nbsp;children who do&nbsp;not ask questions, whether to&nbsp;draw the sun in&nbsp;the left or&nbsp;right corner, make it&nbsp;red or&nbsp;yellow. And if&nbsp;"it&nbsp;should&nbsp;be" green, then the sun will be&nbsp;green. Children live in&nbsp;a&nbsp;state of&nbsp;natural creative flow that does not become shut with adult barriers of&nbsp;doubt about conditional aesthetics. But as&nbsp;Picasso said, "I&nbsp;can draw like Raphael, but&nbsp;I will need all my&nbsp;life to&nbsp;learn how to&nbsp;draw like a&nbsp;child."

&#8195;This clairvoyance, "what needs to&nbsp;be&nbsp;done to&nbsp;make beautiful," from the point of&nbsp;view of&nbsp;the outside observer will be&nbsp;perceived as&nbsp;subjective and relative, but the artist himself, touching&nbsp;it, will be&nbsp;at&nbsp;the point of&nbsp;one&rsquo;s stability, objectivity, realization and flow, and this is&nbsp;truly valuable.

&#8195;And no&nbsp;one will ever be&nbsp;able to&nbsp;objectively tell you and teach you what to&nbsp;do&nbsp;with your work, to&nbsp;make it&nbsp;"better," to&nbsp;subordinate it&nbsp;to&nbsp;some rules, because if&nbsp;you have the desire to&nbsp;take guidance from the outside, this is&nbsp;one hundred percent departure from your only important point of&nbsp;"objective vision and knowledge," from your point of&nbsp;stability. But when you are in&nbsp;it, you see everything yourself. "Being the one is&nbsp;just like being in&nbsp;love. No&nbsp;one can tell you you&rsquo;re in&nbsp;love, you just know&nbsp;it" (from movie "The Matrix")
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<br>&#8195;<em>Photo with me in&nbsp;the post is&nbsp;made by&nbsp;Katerina&nbsp;Kavlakan. </em>
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@orinklev ·
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Great post๐Ÿ‘Œ upvoted๐Ÿ˜ƒ. Check out my page of you like๐Ÿ™‚ artists are the bestโค๏ธ
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@awispa ·
Thank you!  You make good interesting photos :) I follow you )
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@anonymousmind ·
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Nice post. Picasso has many great quotes. I will soon make a post on creativity. You might like it :)
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@awispa ·
Yes, Picasso is really interesting creative personality  :) Look forward to your post )
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@trillex ·
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As an artist, I believe there should be freedom to express oneself anyhow you want to...no barriers/no rules. I enjoyed this post so much. Def have to follow you to see subsequent post.
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@awispa ·
Thanks! I follow you also :)
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@inber ·
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I can't agree more:)
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@twirble ·
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Resteeming because this deserves more attention. I find one really needs to learn to trust their own heart and vision above all else; sometimes after they have studied for a while, but it is that inner motivation that will keep you going .
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