On Being Creative

I’m about to go on a bunch of different rants about creativity and creative so put on your rainbow vision goggles and prepare for lift off.

RANT 1

I am naturally a creative person but that doesn’t mean I’m coming up with ideas all the time. Since I am naturally creative, it doesn’t mean I’m bad at maths or science or don’t like sports. Being naturally creative, I’m always trying to come up with new ideas so if I’m not listening to you it probably means you inspired me. I’m also not necessarily good at everything relating to the arts. I’m always trying my best to learn new skills but sadly being creative doesn’t make me good at them.

When you look at me for the art project in class, cause you know I like art. I have got news for you, I can’t draw to save my life so HA! I really showed you with that one.

RANT 2

Being creative is hard to keep up. There’s this perfect amount of over thinking and analysing your every thought and ignoring all of your responsibilities. But you also have to save time for everything else. And you wonder why I’m so tired.

Anyways, I have this constant ball of energy sitting inside my chest ready to bring a new idea into life but after that there’s not another ball of energy so things often remain unfinished. When I’m lucky, I get really passionate about something and it magically finishes itself by being the only thing I do for twenty four hours straight. When all of my energy focuses on something, it makes it really challenging to do anything else. So have fun dragging me to a party where I die a little inside without my art.

Give me time to be alone and work on my ideas. Don’t forget to make me socialise. Sometimes, I am like a pet. I forget about everything else but what I can see and someone has to (sadly) remove from the premises of my art so I can come up with more ideas. Whoever that someone is thank you.

The habitat for a creative person is very unstable and if you ruin it, you could ruin our lives. For example, being removed from my art completely would ruin my life but being removed for a day would give me more ideas. When we tell you to do something stupid, you should probably do it unless you could die then don’t and come up with a fair excuse because our little artist hearts can only empathise for so much. Just kidding, we have really big hearts and we only empathise if we want to.

RANT 3

Some people believe that you can just splatter some paint on some paper and call it a masterpiece. Or they can sing one song so they’re the best in the world. Or a photograph turned out really well, therefore they’re a photographer. 

Art does not work like that. It takes time of developing a skill (like you develop a photo, get it??). It takes sacrifice and glitter to be considered a creative work. You are an artist only if you are willing to dedicate yourself to the dark side of a colorful reality and a deeper understanding of the world.

Art might be your hobby. You are an artist. Art might be your career. You are an artist. You might be in kindergarten. You are an artist. I crown the whole world as artists*.

*To be officially crowned, you must spend 100% of your time being creative as well as sacrifice yourself to the universe and drop out of elementary school with your best friend Jane Doe, who is actually a unicorn contrary to the popular rumor saying she is a deer (don’t worry this process is possible in some countries, Narnia, Wakanda, Tarsurella, Atlantis, etc.)

I know we can be a lot to handle sometimes but we give the world a truer way to see itself. We might need help sometimes and a little patience to figure out the test of the world but you won’t regret it.