Road blocks, challenges and problems are a norm in the lives of creators. As is evident from several artists and creators who talk about rising to fanfare from the bottom and from scratch, creativity and artistry is no mean feat. It takes a lot of courage to convert artisanship and creativity as a vocation. Although there are a number of examples from film makers to videographers to writers and painters they are of very few…
The popular French novelist, playwright and journalist Émile Zola once said, “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” This quote exactly captures the emotions that run behind a creator. Living out loud and speaking through art and creativity forms the nerve center of human existence. Creators and arts do not speak or live out loud in vacuum.…
The world-renowned, Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh once famously said, “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced”. Artists and creators who desire to take up such a path always get bogged down by the fear of economic failure that would entail such careers. In fact, the word ‘career’ has been formalised so much that the connotation that it holds…
