"This is the thing about art: it's not about market demand. It's not like trying to figure out if this town needs another grocery store or dry cleaner. It's more like a million voices all yelling out one word over and over, and every once in a while the sound makes the whole world sit up straight and pay attention for a split second.
The world does not need another band, per se. It doesn't, strictly speaking, need another book or another photographer or another album. The general world population will survive without one more stage production and one more gallery showing.
The thing is, though: you might not. We create because we were made to create, having been made in the image of God, whose first role was Creator. He was and is a million different things, but in the beginning, he was a creator. That means something for us, I think. We were made to be things that he is: forgivers, redeemers, second chance-givers, truth-tellers, hope-bringers. And we were certainly, absolutely, made to be creators."
- "bittersweet"
shauna niequist
There is a reason we feel the way we do when we create.
For me it's music. And words. And art.
For others it's food or clothes or media or dance.
Whatever it is that you create, there is a reason it makes you feel at home --
Like it's exactly what you're supposed to be doing.
It is exactly what you're supposed to be doing.
It is not stupid, or small, or a waste of time.
It is necessary and satisfying and something that is ingrained in us as humans.
A charge -- words to her readers that I pass on to you:
"Get up. Create like you're training for a marathon, methodically, day by day. Learn your tricks, find a friend, leave the dirty dishes in the sink for a while. This is your chance to become what you believe deep in your secret heart you might be. You are an artist, a guide, a prophet. You are a storyteller, a visionary, the Pied Piper himself. Do the work, learn the skills, and make art, because of what the act of creation will create in you."
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