I could've been great

[P3nT4gR4m]

Jesus! I'm sorry I used the word "angsty"

I'm not disagreeing with you Nigel - My post was meant to kinda agree with your OP.

The whole "I'm not suffering enough to be a great artist thing" I was proposing that maybe people were making the connection "My hero so and so lived an artists life [pain, insanity, poverty, not even a tinge of angst] and I'm not, so that prevents me doing the art"

It's just as bullshit as the flipside "You aint black and from teh ghettos so you can't rap"

[Richter]

Edit:  Re: OP : Fuck YES.    No one has ever been great without adversity.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I once knew a guy who was convinced he could have been a Great Poet... if only he hadn't gotten married and had three kids and a middle-class house in the suburbs.

I knew a woman was was convinced she could have been a great concert cellist, if only she had the courage to go perform.

I know a guy right now who is just so "stifled" by his house and high-earning, low-maintenance girlfriend that he's not getting much done on his art and he's always frustrated. If only he could devote himself full-time to his medium without these distractions, he could get so much accomplished.

I've caught myself in the "if only" game... and I want some kind of permanent reminder to bitch-slap myself anytime I catch myself making self-indulgent, bullshit excuses for not working on my projects. If I'm not working on it, it's because I've chosen to spend my time doing something else, and that's no one's responsibility but my own. It's not the fault of having a house or a garden or pets or kids.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Jesus! I'm sorry I used the word "angsty"

I'm not disagreeing with you Nigel - My post was meant to kinda agree with your OP.

The whole "I'm not suffering enough to be a great artist thing" I was proposing that maybe people were making the connection "My hero so and so lived an artists life [pain, insanity, poverty, not even a tinge of angst] and I'm not, so that prevents me doing the art"

It's just as bullshit as the flipside "You aint black and from teh ghettos so you can't rap"

LOL OK. We are in complete agreement!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Too late, now I'm in an "artistic depression"

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 

[Kai]

This thread is now about all the awesome artistic things we could do and also the excuses we often make not to do them.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I could be a great artist if it wasn't for the fact that I'm seldom inspired to do anything artistic.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I could have been a great painter if only I hadn't spent all my canvas money on Pokemon.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I could have been a great humanitarian, but...but...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Triple Zero]

I could have been a great humanitarian, but...but...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[LMNO]

I could be an amazing musician and producer, if only I wasn't terrified that people wouldn't like me and I'd die penniless and alone.

[AFK]

I could probably actually have a decent, paying side gig doing music (like the kid's music idea) if I had better follow through. 

[Cain]

I could be a great novelist, if I wasn't worried I'd end up unemployed and...

Oh.

Wait.

Nevermind.

*back to drafting*

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I could be a great philosopher, photographer, illustrator, type designer, neurobiologist, proctologist, sexologist, linguist, father, marketing strategist, astronaut, cinematographer, translator, kinesiologist, chef, mountaineer, glaciologist, ecologist, pianist, and cellular microbiologist, but I just haven't figured out how to not die and fund everything yet.