#unstableness

I saw a few days ago a post from someone that stated, perhaps in not so many words that ‘artists, actors and musicians are temperamental, emotional freaks that essentially do not deserve love’ As an artist I wanted to talk about this a bit because this has been a subject that has been pushed to be belief throughout the ages. Artists, in whatever genre or field they may be in, can truly be temperamental I won’t deny this. Many are indeed unstable, emotional, and even mentally ill….. however so is the rest of the human race. 

There is no correlation between artistry and unstableness and to believe otherwise is foolish in honesty. Art in any form is a very emotional and personal thing. It’s not always understood, just as artists themselves are not often understood. From a personal standpoint I am strange and I’ve never claimed to be anything but, I do not fit in, I am not understood, and I can only relate to people so much. I’ve realized this to be a common thread in people who work in artistry for the sake of artistry.

Sometimes our unstableness drives our art, sometimes it is our art….. but that does not and now should it ever make an artist, actor or musician be considered ‘unloveable’ or an ‘emotional freak’ looking at the world from a different eye should not cause hate in others. Art is a therapy, a creation, a calming, a calling, an eye into another realm, and sometimes artists are so much a part of their art it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other starts. This doesn’t make them horrible or wrong, just different. 

Just because an artist writes or paints, or expresses something of violence or rage, or strong depression, isn’t cause to think they will act on it. Nearly every artist throughout history has expressed such things, such as rage, dark thoughts, or violent thoughts, this is not wrong, it’s a healthy, personal and human expression. In the end, artists like Edgar Allan Poe and Van Gogh as well as many others ended up being more a harm to themselves than anything. To say that an artist is unloved simply for being human and going through personal demon’s and trauma’s is more a cruelty in itself than anything.