ARTIST? What gives???

Did you Brush today?

Did you sleep on a bed last night?

Did you watch television today?

Did you look at the newspaper today?

Did you put on a pair of blue jeans any time recently?

Do you style your hair?

Did you open a book today?

Did you happen to listen to your IPod today?

Did you play a computer game recently?

Did you listen to a CD recently?

Did you look at the box of cereal that you opened this morning?

If you have done anything at all today some where or the other u have definitely touched/ used something that involved an Artist. Everything around you has been designed by a thought an artist has created in his/her mind. There is nothing that you can do that doesn’t involve the input of an artist at one point or another, EVERYTHING!

When we create/generate an idea, that bulb that lights up in our heads is, according to me that is the most profound thing on the PLANET. It in turn leads us into feeling something totally new and complete. We just HAVE to follow up on it to fulfill our need to create. It may be to get out some sort of emotional dilemma we're going through at the time or it could just be a silly whim that makes us consider it to be very “cool”. Either ways, it helps us (the artist) get something out of ourselves when we feel we have to.

We have a true need to CREATE. It's like an addiction, we have to utilize the creativity or all the creativity will just dry up and die. Granted, that what one thinks as good others may not appear the same to another but that's not the point.

Let me use myself as an example, I don't sit around and dream up stuff to do. But when I come up with something I have to at least put it onto a sketch book or it will drive me nuts! I have to get it out even if it's in draft form. Will I ever finish it? Maybe not, there's still a record of the idea that was created and to me that's what's important. It's the same for sculpture or whatever I do. That’s how the flow of Creativity is!

Now, for those of us who buy art or just pick up a picture when they feel the need, it is actually more difficult. The reasons they buy can be ENDLESS! It could be because it looks good over the couch or maybe it reminds them of happy times in their lives or maybe it takes them back to someone they miss dearly. Then again it could just be because they think it's cool.

Why we buy art is very PERSONAL. It can be healing or it can be something that people just find fascinating. It doesn't matter if it's as random as a poster of the gorgeous Hugh Jackman (Drool...), hunky Hrithik Roshan, docile the American Gardener or the tranquil Mona Lisa... :P