...but why does it always feel like one? We're all competing, jealous bastards and 99.9% of the time we're fighting with ourselves. Always trying to out due the last drawing or our best drawing. It's an un-ending cycle that can drive us insane to the point that we're panting and heaving towards a finish line that doesn't exist. And what for? Because we enjoy doing art?
As my art professor once said, "Art is not fun. It's painful, unrelating, and destroys an sense of calm. Whoever says that art is soothing to the soul isn't trying hard enough."
So the question is why do we put ourselves through this torture?
We've go through those 'droughts' where nothing seems to come out right or where there really is no ambition to do anything but scribble crap onto wandering sheets of paper; which is always, ironically, the best things we've ever done. We let it consume our minds day in and day out to the point were we lose sense and touch with reality as ideas run around behind our eyes taunting us relentlessly as our hands struggle to grasp whatever it is our brain is trying to communicate. We pour out half our soul into these things letting them come to life and become our children that we jealously protect from others' harsh comments and words only to realize that they are merely an extension of our thoughts and cannot bleed. We fear rejection, standing naked as we display ourselves before others, and fear acceptance by those who like to swim with the tides of society belittling the effort and heartache we placed into each drawing. Our frustration mounting until at last we enter a state of total insanity and bi-polar tendencies attacking everything from our art to ourselves with an anger that can only be surpassed by God. We scream and cry tears of bitterness letting it blur or vision as we enslave ourselves to this painful task of producing art and creating, within our Zen-like state, an art that has us sighing in relief that everything we had just gone through was for the sake of this one picture... only to begin the cycle all over again.
Art is not a race but a struggle to express and capture our minds within a flickering moment and meant only for those who can endure such things with a spirit of steel.
-Just pissed so don't mind me. *grumbles* I don't even have a reason to be angry but I just am.
Art is not a race... 
Devious Comments
Joy in the fact you can create and make people happy in your art ^^. It seems to me that when people earn a P.H.D they have a tendcy to assmum that there God or such nonsence. Sure its important to push and test your self in your craft.
And we also have to have the conifdance to say to those who strike out in jealouly
"I DON'T GIVE A RIP ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK."
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The great french philosopher Voltaire, once said that in 100 years from his time Christianity would be swept from existence and passed into history. Fifty years later, his estate was used as a press house to produce stacks and stacks of Bibles...98% of th
I totally agree with you~
But in the end, I still love it... I know it eats away at me but I love doing it~ I love expressing to others through pictures things that I can't always display with words.
I know it'd kinda stupid once I'm not very good at drawing, but I practice over and over again to try and be able to draw better and better.
Not to compete with other people, but to more easily express myself.
I dunno I feel like I'm repeating what you've already said.
I love drawing.. that's that... and I'll keep trying even if my fingers are worn so throughly that there is no sense of feeling in them. I will try harder, I will improve, I will outdo myself...
X3 If one doesn't challenge oneself.. then life is nothing more then a boring shell of what it should be.
>>; sorry... *runs away*
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*insert random funny quote here*
------that was weird.....but thanks for inspiring me!------
sometimes i draw because i love drawing. sometimes i draw because there is something in me i don't know how to put into words, and i drown it in disclaimers and such because i'm terrified, partially that no one will understand, but moreso that people will understand perfectly and just not care.
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"don't you ever get lonely?" "only around people"
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~W-inds-fan
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It made me wonder, why do I go through toil and harships with something I proclaim to enjoy?... It's amazing how something can inspire and deter people at the same time. I guess we all have our own reasons why we engage in art.
the typical ramblings characteristic of an artist experiencing artblock.
don't worry too much about it. You have every right to be mad as you to do be happy about art. XD
*is useless*
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*cough*
HAYATE HAS SARS. He needs to be quarantined in my room.
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