As any person with artistic ambitions will tell you, their dream is to be known and to live from their art. Since art is something that sets your soul free. It is something you dont need to do as a living, it is a feeling, an urge that sais you have to do it. It is difficult though. To go in against all opinions of family and friends. They acknowledge the fact that you have talent, but they dont want to see you as an artist, because they think that kind of life is too hard. It is probably true, since to get out there and show what your capable of is one thing (since artists most of the time are solitary beings not that easy either), to be recognized by the big public all has to do with marketing yourself as an artist and this is totaly different from creating. The best artists probably never get recognition in their own life. Take Van Gogh for example, he was a real trend maker and breaker and I find it actually horrible for him that nowadays his paintings are bought for million dollars, while when he was alive he didnt have a dime. Ok, this story probably has been heared a thousand times, but it is such a huge example of the hypocrisy of the world we live in. Why did he need to kill himself, before people understood he was a special person, creating beautiful pieces of art? If he wouldnt have killed himself, would his artwork be worth anything right now? The value lies in the eye of beholder, which most of the time corresponds with the public opinion. Just think about it next time when you see a piece of art. Do you like it because you are supposed to like it or do you really like it because it does something to you personaly. Since art is one of the most subjective things one can do, the products of it are also very much dependent on the subjective minds of people.
