Should You Be An Artist And Follow Your Dreams? Here ’s Something You Must Know

You're reading Should You Be An Artist And Follow Your Dreams? Here’s Something You Must Know, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Do you often think whether you should follow your dream of becoming an artist? If you do, then read on. Look at the painting above. The painting you see is ‘The Red Vineyard’ by Vincent Van Gogh. The only painting which Van Gogh ever succeeded in selling during his lifetime out of the 900 which he had painted. He remained a failure for his lifetime, led a miserable life filled with mental illnesses and melancholy, until he finally shot himself and committed suicide. "La tristesse durera toujours," were his last words, which meant "The sadness will last forever". He never got to witness his success. He didn’t remain alive to see it. He couldn’t make a fortune out his art. Yet, he painted. His art wasn’t respected in his time and pushed him towards the miseries he might not have imagined. Once he spent his money on paint rather than food, yet he painted. Why did he paint? If you could answer the question without a need to think, with a voice that comes straight from your soul, I doubt not that you’re an artist. I believe you know why artists do what they do. If you can feel how he might have felt and can’t help thinking with a sigh on your face for a while, then you’re an artist. More than anything,...
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