Art and Pink Air

Art and Pink Air

If you are an artist with a really big ego, you may not want to read this one. Actually, I’m not against people that have big egos, but for some strange reason, ego seems to get in the way of true creative insight. Now we all know people with unbearable egos. These are the people that promulgate self-aggrandizement. I suppose, to each his own; and I’m not trying to cast aspersions or be disparaging to anyone. I freely admit that there have been times in my own life that I became verbosely irritating. Probably a better way of stating it, I became a braggart about my own accomplishments.

When it comes to creativity our egos often become fragile. I think it’s driven by the question artists most often receive. “Where are you selling your art?” Well if you’re not selling your art, or in virtually most cases you’ve never sold any art, you immediately become self-critical. You ask yourself; “What am I doing wrong, maybe my art is just no good.” I could write a thousand words on all the things creative people say to themselves when they feel less than… And I probably would not even scratch the surface.

Should it be that way? I don’t think so. We creative people can be extremely vulnerable, when it comes to outside criticism, and often there is no shortage of inside criticism to marry the two together. Enter the ego, it has a way of making up…