Feeling unable to create is like never speaking a language you used to be fluid in. Laugh at the inner and outer critics and make an art today. Look at other peoples’ artwork as attempts at communication, too. Find your own voice. Become a creator or stay a consumer. We live in cosuming mindsets all the time. Creating is an aRtidote. (This is my take on this.)
I feel personally attacked by this. I’m very good at communicating with my boss and underlings. And I don’t understand why art wouldn’t be a consumable product.
Just another gatekeeper looking to feel superior to others in whatever small way they can. Art is not one thing or the other. Plenty of people create art to be consumed, and plenty create art for their own expression. Sometimes people even do one and then the other.
The idea isn’t that art can’t be a consumable product.
It’s that it doesn’t necessarily have to be that. That art can exist separately from commodification.
It’s part of a current narrative about the value of art in a world where AI can do art. The poster is implying that art has value outside of money, and to reduce art to “then who will pay the artists” is doing a disservice to the idea of art as a way that humans connect and communicate.
It can be hard to share art online just for the sake of sharing. If your art isn’t “good” by traditional standards, you get unrequested criticism at best and open mockery at worst. If your art is good, the first thing people say is “wow, you should sell this!” (which is not bad if you’re trying to make a living as an artist, but it can be frustrating when you’re just trying to relax by doing something creative.)
As a result, it’s hard for artists of any skill level or style to let themselves create just to create. They feel constant pressure to improve or monetize, and to please others, when really it’s beneficial for all people to just pick up a brush/instrument/camera/etc. and let the creative juices flow.
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