Lessons We Can Learn From Artistic Fanatics

Lessons we can learn from fanatics:

1. Options for life.

2. What to try.

3. How to fail.

4. How to succeed.

5. Required characteristics.

6. Possible Results

Options for an artist’s life.

Often the artists and creatives we want to emulate actually lived lives that we may not want to live. My father quit work for a year once to write a book he never published. While I applaud his creativity and willingness to takes risks I am not sure I want to follow in his footsteps. I am not sure how he got mom to buy into that. She had four small kids and ran an in-home day care.

Perhaps we want to do the Van Gogh? Get up every day and paint for eight hours and not make a dime. Perhaps we want to beg for food and live off of our brother’s monthly allowance. It’s an option, but not one that I am willing to try. My brother would never go for it.

What to try.

George Sand fueled her writing by reading. I can do that all day long. Her writing was also fueled by her lifestyle. George loved to love. She had many close friends and affairs. Her promiscuous lifestyle is well known. If our art needs a little spice we can look at artists like…