They will always tell you to be something else. A doctor, a teacher, a lawyer, a business owner. And while these are all fine and understandable professions, with great potential for one to live a happy life, the artist, will suffer. With out constant creation, with out constant searching, for all things deep, painful, beautiful, brilliant and insane. With out diving into the places most hide, we would not be living our truth. For an artist's truth is to find those ever changing and haunting places in themselves, and to bare it all in honor of their art. For the world to see, and most importantly for the world to feel.
