Artists Pair Better With Poor People in anticlimatic

They just do, in every way.

Not to be confused with talented people (and not to presume they are mutually exclusive), who benefit very much from being around people who are in positions to elevate, reward, and further grow that talent (to an extent possible on a technical level)- artistry has its own prerogative, and it’s oddly more important than talent.

Less rewarding. More important.

Artistry is a physical thing. A tangible growth, like a fungus in a wet room, produced almost automatically by a singular human organism. In one sense it seems elective, but in a more real sense it is compulsive. A helplessly birthed expression. An artist with adequate means of swift expression will trip over themselves to get it out.

Self expression can be hard in a critical world full of people that want to harm or see you fail. Not feeling judged or shamed is paramount to cultivating the ego necessary to make the next step- to brave the absolute audacity that is the vain destruction and recreation of physical matter simply for the sake of whim and pleasure.

Why this line here? Why that dash there? Because I fancy it so, no question, no quarter. It seems appropriately pretentious. And it is. But you don’t need to think that much about how the sausage is made so long as we all get to enjoy breakfast later. It seems like it would fit in with well cultured, well mannered, well meaning, culturally contemporary, upper crust sophisticates. And it does- hence the stereotype.

But even people who care very much about positive themes you may or may not align with yourself can have a negative influence on the creative process. Poor people simply don’t care at all about you, unless you’re suffering in front of them and they can help (and they will). This, I believe, is even more conducive to creative expression than potentially misguided support.

They might not care at all about the art you create, but never will they steer you- either implicitly or explicitly- and that keeps more doors open that normally wouldn’t, allowing you to further know the depth of your own unique character and potential contributions to the world.