“One of the dangerous things for artists is to get caught in a trap that you need be completely upset and miserable and depressed in order to create art. And it took me a really long time to realize that I didn’t need all that to create art.” -Gerard way
@@Lux-ow5vf It doesn't always have to be. It can depend on the context of the work which way it leads more towards. Plenty of art is happy themed especially in music. I use to only be able to write depressing,sad,melancholy stuff. I was very one dimensional. I used to believe if I'm happy my songwriting would be awful. It's actually the exact opposite. I started taking care of my mental health more and my work has improved. I write more positively. But what really changed was that I could be more nuanced. I could write something to a sad instrumental make it sad but express optimism at the end and vice versa. Which I believe actually leads to the more profound work than the default of being totally miserable/depressed etc. Most art is not made under the sole pretext of suffering but cannot be ruled out entirely in the process. Just like even in sad work their is profound enjoyment mainly for the artist themselves. It leads to a emotional catharsis because of the expression itself. If this doesn't occur you wouldn't do anything artistic or anything at all. Because why even try if theirs nothing to gain from doing.If you can experience this feeling going one way the other opposite must be true as well. Imo combining both aspects is the essences of being human. It's more relatable aswell because as humans were emotionally fickle creatures. Emotions are complex I think of it like combining two different paint colors to make a new one or changing the shade of a color. Within the light there is darkness and both are codependent on each other
@@levelfourteen I love your story. I used to equate happy art with “hokey” art. The truth is that if what you’re creating makes your heart sing, it will come through in the artwork. However, I do think some folks might be surprised to know how dark some “happy” art really is. Keep up your good work; your first creation is you. ✌🏻
@@ivoted-5489 Ofc I can agree with you on that. Thank you for the kind words. I think both are prevalent in works of art. It just depends on the artist themselves and how the dynamic of it plays out. The idea of sadness being the fuel to good work is missing the bigger picture. Imo the actual biggest factor in good work is genuine expression. Which you pretty much summed up. Another thing I'll say is the only opinion that needs to matter is the artist's thoughts on their work. Art itself is meant to express the feelings of others but more importantly expression of self. Your opinion on your work matters the most.
yea, check your email, in my letter my lawyer explained the reason i am suing you is because you are stalking me and using the information to slander me on the internet.
Crack is supposed to really help creativity. At least that’s what the people I met who did crack told me. Also, crackheads are pretty funny and ingenious when you think about it! Didn’t RDJ used to do crack? (Before I’m blasted NO it is not my intention to seek out RDJ to send him out of recovery and make more than $4,000,000 dealing him crack/blow!)
Lot's of comments like this seem to put so much emphasis of the title of the video rather then its overarching message. Artists are not special in the way they are burdened. This is a universal problem that applies to all. Finding the right way to live, in spite of cultural or monetary Validation is a issue that everyone faces.
Yeah because the corrupt governments and elites around the globe want to take your freedom, they want you to do school job and work. They want to enslave you and make you do robot jobs like a factory worker or officer worker.
Art is used as escapism for many, millions of people put words into paper with the purpose of reaching out for a breath of fresh air while constantly drowning in water made of void. I feel that we forget there are also those enamored with the world around them, and they want to share it. So they write poems, and they make paintings, and they play music. Art is the exaggeration of emotion, but it’s easy to forget that positive feelings can be exploited and felt as much as negative ones can.
Art is escapism. If you use art to express your negative feelings then it works a lot better but you shouldn't make it a habit to feel those things only to produce art.
Artists are the ones who formulate concepts of truth way before we can formulate them cognitively. You have much more drive to step into the realm of the unknown and piecing it together to take it to the known if pain is your motivation. I bet you ran faster if a killer is behind you than if you want to run a new personsl record for fun
@@nyx0id In my opinion it's about chasing success while not taking care of yourself. Not necessarily an artist exclusive advice, but it's advice that can benefit tons of people. Working a corporate job you don't care about and earning tons of money while your self is slowly withering away is something people do, most of the time out of necessity. I didn't take this video as "to be a good artist you have to be depressed", but "treat your mind and body with respect". People seemed to really miss the final piece of dialogue here.
dude just stfu. USA bashing doesn't even make sense at this point. How can a continent have one centralized sense of humor. Do all American comedians make the same jokes?????
@@lameesankawi4148 There's definitely some hilarious content from the USA, but generally I like comedy from other English-speaking countries better (as well as comedy from my own non-English European country). It's hard to explain exactly why that is, but I think it's often too on the nose, underestimates the intelligence of its audience, and lacks absurdity.
I am a writer. I started writing in my high school when i was going through dark time. And somehow, once i found things that made me happy, I realized i couldn't write just as effectively anymore. Even till today, my best writings have come from times when I was too sad or crying or just really just tryna survive that day. Damn. This video hit hard.
I write too (nothing published) but write by posing myself questions and then answering them writing along. My emotions are less important than my curiosity.
But maybe (just maybe) the quality of your writing actually increased, but you like these pieces less because you've invested in them less and it influences your assessment.
Same, I used to make stories with my friends for fun and was really good at it, could go on for hours a day and months with a single story. But when my mental health improved, I found I couldn't do them anymore, or at least not the way I did before.
For most people disorders are actually ruin the quality of their art and their productivity. When I'm anxious or depressed I can't do almost anything. If you explore closely biographies of some "genius" people you'll understand what I mean. They were creative and smart not because of disorders but in spite of them. It's really hard to do those things while sick.
This. I have bipolar 1 disorder and I can't write anything that is worth a cent when I'm manic. Those moments of stability and clarity are the times when I've produced my best work.
When its at it's worst. But the drive to create comes from the darkness. People who are happy don't desire to explore and understand their depths. They are too busy enjoying themselves.
@@Lux-ow5vf true, why would you analyse your own patterns of thinking and acting if it produced what you desire. What would you search for in a running system? You also wouldn't dissect an algorithm if it does what it is supposed to. You are happy that it works properly and concentrate on what you can do with it instead of eliminating the mistakes because there aren't any
Oh f off. I'm so sick of this comment in every video of this type. You're basically just doing it for "likes" and validation from complete strangers on the internet.
I have a bipolar disorder and my depression paralyzed me to the point where I couldn't bear to write anything. It wasn't until I got better that I was able to write again. Some people experience depression and they manage to cope through creativity. But for me, depression killed my creativity.
I can relate to this in some way. While unfortunately my ability to draw decreased heavily, I instead could write really well. It kinda sucks as I used to really love drawing
Yeahh, I stopped drawing 2 years ago. Before, I would draw tons of things everyday. When I got back from school, I would just turn my computer on and keep drawing until the next day. Then it started to become only drawing when having strong emotions and now it's so hard to even try. I have these "peaks of energy" out of nowhere and it makes me super excited to make things, be happy and plan a lot of unrealistical stuff (but I only seem to notice how it doesn't make sense when it ends). When that happens, sometimes I try to draw again, but it always ends with me crying and feeling more miserable than before. I get scared of all the moments of happiness I have because most of the time they are these exagerated peaks of energy that will make me feel all my negative emotions after it ends. I apologize for the vent and if the english is bad.
@@AntepenultimaRomantica U sound manic depressive. Drugs can alter your moods but insulate your creativity Without medication paint write dance create what you are truly.
As an artist myself, I do feel some sense of seriousness to the "Tortured Artist" stereotype. My art is usually very emotional, and I feel I create best when I feel passionately. Weather it's about what I'm creating or not, I do my best work when I'm feeling particularly strong emotions. Depression can sometimes be one of those emotions, as backwards as that sounds. When I'm depressed, I usually try to draw things that make me feel happy or at peace. Or if I'm really far down, I create dark and disturbing things. It is not something I need to be able to draw, but passion, weather love or hate, is a particularly strong fuel.
I experience this too - the quality or my creative output correlates with the intensity of my recent emotional experiences, both good and bad. I think the fact that art can be very emotional by nature means that being depressed, anxious, relieved, joyous, pensive etc. can both fuel and guide the creation process, especially if you're still decently functional. In my case, if I just sit down and make some music because I'm bored or I should, the only thing that comes naturally is to edit and do boring or technical stuff, which is fine for a lot of things (practice, editing music etc.). But when I write or perform, I need to have something to express, or it'll just be technical babble.
The artist/rapper NF is the same way. His music is dark and touches on his mental health and depression, and he has stated that he doesn't know if he even wants to get better because it might ruin his career.
@@jac6255 I would say that even if the main video is fiction, the idea that artists draw from their mental illnesses and find success from it is real enough
Bruh I went through a season myself. I couldn't cope. I was like a water trapped in a bottle and I needed to escape from everything. I actually that it was good that I escape from everything. I've been creating sounds and entering dimensions that I've never seen before. It's beautiful.
I was depressed , struggling with some family issue, during high school and i scraped together such nice concepts in ma writting that my teacher would shocking shocked at them , my classmates loved them i still dunno why , i haven t taken some time to write again see if i still have some concept at the back of my mind or not
I used to think some kind of chronic dysfunction was needed to be creative, but not anymore. Life is hard and fragile enough as it is, and it's possible to have an intense, varied and creative life without being miserable.
It's better to be mentally healthy and find creativity through reading deep thinkers and through diverse experiences, than it is to find inspiration using your depressed thoughts and whatever events you can only bare to do.
@@canttalkanymore truly. I encourage everyone to take care of their mental health. BUT, even if you only consume philosophy from secondhand sources.. you still must take it to heart, embrace it and wallow in its truth to truly understand what it all means. And you will be sad, you have to be. And it is not a bad thing as long as you don't let it drive you blindly.
wow you really dont know anything about artists. it has NOTHING to do with being "productive to society" and everything to do with the fact your "work" as an artist IS your lifeline. your very soul will shrivel up and die otherwise, and let me tell you that is far worse than dying physically. any artist worthy of the title will sacrifice physical and mental security for the sake of creative output, its what they do. they really cant fathom having it any other way. its like getting extroverts to self isolate for covid lol, they rather go out and risk disease because social interaction IS their lifeline more than their physical body being "safe". human beings are far more nuanced and operate on a higher plane of existence than you give them credit for with your normie "hot take" here... which likely extends to your general belief system being shallow considering the fact you shoe-horned such unrelated nonsense onto THIS video of all things. go put that trash on a video documenting how chinese are working 12 hours a day 6 days a week where its at least relevant (or stop looking at the entire world through the normie-lense you're using which causes you to be unable to even determine relevancy due to reducing the complexity of reality down to true or false levels of simplicity.)
I used to believe that being sad and miserable was the fuel of my creativity and that wouldn't let my day be happy and full filed at the same time. When I was creative, I was fighting something, when I was happy, I was a little guilty that I'm not producing anything. And it's not exciting to wish for sad days, so I didn't even know what I wanted in the first place. So that made me feel like a mess. But then something else happened. My mind switches were so strong, that I would cringe at the things I've written in a sad mood and feel like my works in a happy mood were just flat when in a bad mood. I wasn't even sure whether I was true to myself and when. And others obviously started questioning me too. I got to the point where I couldn't write anymore and believed it was gone from me forever. Many mistakes that I made in my writing were pointed at me and I wasn't ready to accept it. So for the half of 2020 I mainly cried and felt petty. Then I started taking antidepressants and go out little by little as I didn't have reason to be sad. I just wanted to be happy. And I did things I usually don't do, took my time for a few months. And now I feel more creative than ever. I realised that misery is just one of the tools no The one. Any strong emotion can lead to thoughtful content. And I wouldn't say that low self-esteem helps in anyway with art. All it does is stop you from practicing it because you feel like you're not good enough. So, if you're an artist and feel the block or like you've passed the "10 creative years", don't wait for another life to come have your new 10 years. Take a shift for a while until you have something to say again.
Thank you for sharing this, I've been feeling the same way lately and with so much going on in my life, I just needed someone who knows how im feeling.
That first paragraph is what happens to me too, every work that was made with the opposite mood of the mood that i have at that time feels flat and throwable.
@@saveriannathan1415 I think its because its easy to be sad and make something while being sad, rather than to be happy long enough to be able to create something without changing the mood to fast. In other words it is harder to be happy for a long time than to be sad for a long time. I hope thats understandable :/
As an artist with severe depression and bipolar, medication and therapy saved both my life and art. Depression never spawns creativity, it holds it back. Van Gogh's greatest paintings were made after he admitted himself to an institution to get better. Don't get yourselves fooled, please. If you think you're making great art whilst depressed, just wait what you will be able to do once you start seeking help. Don't fall for the trap of a 'tortured artist' and stay safe
It isn't a trap - it just doesn't work for you. It fuels my creativity. It works for me, and many others. Van Gogh wouldn't have even been compelled to create without his suffering and neither would you. You owe it more than you think.
@@Lux-ow5vf real. it is really different with every people. i also do alot of inspos and create a very honest and good art when i'm in my depressive moods but at the same time, i also create a very different one on my not so sad days. thus, having two different personas lmao
“the greatest work is always just what strives for truth. and in so far as i can tell, the truth is pretty sad and painful.” that’s just so accurate. i’m a writer myself, and my inspiration to write? is my sadness. because it’s when i’m sad i realize the meaning of something-the truth behind everything. like when i’m happy, i’m blinded
Depression is often what halts creativity as opposed to fueling it. You're probably not going to make any great art when you can hardly crawl out of bed
It depends what type of depression or thoughts you have. whether they're miserable or nihilistic and such. It also depends on how you use your depression, some use it as a tool/ fuel to get through the day, and some use it for inspiration for poetry/philosophy.
I feel like its like two different production facilities, one pumps out a lot of a product maybe sometimes lacking a bit in quality while the other takes so long making sure the product is of good quality that maybe one item gets pumped out a month or so. But its probably different for everyone
That's the stupidest way to look at the video's meaning. Not only it's unhealthy in long term but also romantize suffering, something many people struggles to cut off from because they thought "it's better to suffer for art". I believe it's better to find comfort and care for yourself above work, because otherwise it'll only lead to self-destruction
Might have been more that the coach had her cut out the dairy and when she noticed the drastic change in her own mental state she looked into why and found out that info.
There's humour in suffering. The funniest comedians have the darkest histories. I have never known comedian coming from a wealthy background to be funny unless he/ she was paying for material.
I have a harder time persuing creative works when I feel more anxious and down. Maybe having a window into such experiences can add to creativity. But living there doesn't. During my most difficult times, my creativity stalls out. Projects are abandoned, or my ideas gather dust before being started. When I start feeling better, I create again.
Same. Feeling depressed and anxious I can't write. But when I feel better again I can write about the sad things I was concerned about while depressed in a more clear state.
Gotta love that David lunch quote thrown in there. David: “Will this process affect my creativity” therapist: “I have to be honest, it could” David: “I shook his hand and left.”
(Rant warning:) TLDR: Depression is not the answer, its not a tool, its not a necessity, you don't have to put up with it to be good at art. You are just as creative without it, just maybe in a different way. Your state of mind can have an effect on your writing style, the tone, the rhythm of your work, but it doesn't define the quality. You don't have to be sad to be a good writer, you can be just as successful without depression. You deserve to be happy. Its sad that an artist is always(or very very often) thought of as a depressive mess. I'm no professional writer by any mean, but I'm inspired to be one. Started writing back in the last years of primary school. I used to have major depression and even suicidal episodes back in middle school (That was also the time when I wrote the most. I mean bags full of notebooks filled to the brim with different stories, most of them never finished or even thought about again). Those were the most productive days of my writing, probably because I used writing as a mean to escape my life. Who wouldn't to be honest? Every day I was teased for my looks, the way I dressed, the way I talked, the friends I had, I even got teased because I was with someone from another country (that got so bad I ended up breaking all connection with him). I changed schools 2 years in. Now I'm here in university, better but still not in perfect shape, happily engaged (to the same guy I left back in middle school) and I just went trough my old works (yes I kept them all, idk why). They were...different from what I write now. By no means best sellers, I was around 16-17 when I wrote them but I wouldn't say they were bad. They were just different in tone, style, pace and all that. I couldn't really get into that mindset again to replicate those things, I was just simply too happy for it I guess. At first I got a bit sad that I lost this ability of mine to evoke certain styles and feelings trough my work, but then I realized that I don't need to stick to one way of writing. I just needed to get more comfortable with the themes I'm writing in now, more used to the tone, the style and I can have the same level of success. I use writing not as an escape but as a way to express. A way to make myself happy, a way to create unique and fantastical worlds and tell stories. A way to share adventures. All you have to do is keep going, adapt to your new style. Explore new feelings you can work with, expand your horizon and you can achieve the same amount of success.
Whenever I get happy, I get careless, I can't focus or understanding things when I am in that particular state of mind! To get myself grounded (or sad/not happy in particular), to focus on things better, to understand reality I listen to few songs (agnes obel, Bonaparte, keep the streets empty and other sad/depressing songs), also I watched DARK for some time to get my mind stabilized. These things make me realise that nothing actually matters in this material world. I don't know what I am saying, but I felt like sharing it!
This is true because we are spiritual beings so much more than we are physical beings, this is what 'they' really don't want us to know, realize, and keep us distracted from.
@@CGMB777 I think reality is way less complicated than people make iT out to be, not that removing the complications isn't complicated. As a spiritual being, and personally I don't like that terminology as iT sort of suggest non-spiritual beings, just go with your spirit as having arrived and don't bother to compete to be more spiritual. Don't even think about iT. iF you write, just write whats right and good, and FUN, to you, and put your emphasis on writing iT as well as you can, and keep re-writing iT iF you come with a better idea. Success tends to be the democratic opinion of people who are just consumers, getting hungrier and hungrier and settling for less and less.
“The sky cries so I don’t have to.” - Myself, 2010s I grew up as a boy. I learned to hide any sad emotions I had. Crying was off-limits in a sense. My teenage years were spent in a rainy state, both physically and mentally. I knew how to smile for pictures, no matter the emotions held underneath. I became what others wanted me to be. I had dissociated from my sense of self for the good of the group. One rainy day, the occasional drips of water from the sky reminded me of crying. Rain conceals all tears shed in its midst. In a way, the sky cries, too. “Boys don’t cry,” as the saying goes. Well, boys, you don’t need to worry because the sky cries for you. You may rightly ask why I have the name of a girl if I grew up as a boy. Let us be clear. I was raised as a boy because that was the assumption that I was. I even believed it for many years. By the time I thought otherwise, I could not believe my new thoughts on the matter. Why should I think myself a woman when I was so clearly a man? This is the mystery that tore my soul in two. Half my mind knew myself to be a woman inside, but what foolishness this must be. I thought for certain if left alone, this femininity would leave me be. Alas, it did not but only got worse. So, I asked the Great Web, “What is this strange curse?” Transgender? Please no. Not here, not me! I feared the thought that I would ever be a she, but secretly and silently I wished it could really be. Thus, mind and body disagree. “Never mind that possibility.” “You’ll never be seen as she.” “How could it be for thee to be so convoluted?” These and more I told myself. “Don’t believe it, ever conceal it; never let it be known.” So, here we are. No bows with which to wrap the situation in a tidy way. It’s a mess, but an honest one. Thank you for reading.
@@anoldaccount7264 It's a metaphor, meant to be used as a way to help alleviate the stress that I was experiencing. I fully understand that rain is not the same as crying. Sometimes words have more than the literal meaning.
@@1Buzz drugs my friend drugs...the only true escapism we have that just hits you heavy, mire so than just an emotion or a feeling people get...the actual soul speaks eventually, you just gotta know how to activate your inner self and the different parts it has😉😁
I definitely relate to the idea of beauty coming from torment. The best poem I ever wrote, I wrote the day after my dog died. It even got printed in a book of poetry. I wrote my best short story while in the depths of depression at the beginning of lockdown, and I took my most awarded abstract photography when I felt at my worst.
writing is fueled by emotion and creativity, the emotion part gives people shock.when sadness, an emotion we repress, is the emotion fueling the writing it's more shocking.
My music teacher said that writing about sadness or while being sad is easier than writing about being happy. After watching this video I guess it makes more sense?? I thought, and maybe I do, have writersblock since I used to write and write write all the time and now I can barely write a scene. My mental health is more stable than when I used to write day and night. I thought it was just me, but I guess not. I hope that everyone going through some type of (artistic) drought finds their creative juice again💕
waaiiiiitt... the same thing about ''i asked a pshychologist, if the therapy would affect my art skills, and after he said yes, I went away" I read in a David lynch's book :0
So happy someone else noticed it. He also gave this answer to a host during an interview too. It's one of those experiences he likes to point to when people ask about his mind and creativity etc and how it might relate to his own mental health and well being.
As a depressed person who writes alot of short stories this almost brought me to tears Im so emotionally on edge the last few years idk if this actually touched me or my brain is just jumping to get anything familiar
TW// To be very honest, I am so glad I found this video explaining what I always felt the need to explain to my friends and family when I wrote something. I might even find myself coming back to this video once every week. I am not that much of a proficient writer, but this definitely gave me the goosebumps given how relatable and close to my heart the whole story sounded. The need to be depressed, sad, anxious, I always felt the need to be so to write well. I always try to find the promoter to be sad, sometimes songs, people, or even make up my own story inside my head by imagining the worst possible case. And I always find people asking me the same question, you are so cheerful and happy all the time, so how are your writings this way. I guess I don't have to answer these questions again, thank God, some of the overthinking work has been reduced due to this video. Thank you so much for this story
@Sofia Kleineidam Sometimes, when I have an existential crisis, I think: Maybe this could be it. This is the truth, it isn't mentally tangible, it isn't emotionally or spiritually comprehendable, maybe it just.. is. Also how did you guess my real name
@@samuelluisdelespiritusanto7343 I think most of my dreams are mentally intangible, which is why I rarely remember them. I once had a dream over a series of nights and I knew when I was dreaming I wanted to remember something from the dream, and I never could. iT was really bizarre. Then after five or six occurrences I realized in a flash that the dream was about potential, and that was iT. I think that was the only time I had that sort of recurrence, or else I just don't remember iT happening other times.
Being an artist myself I don't actually know the connection between art and depression but I think that if u r into creative stuff and do creative things then almost always you feel like your work isn't worth much not as much as people think . This is a very common mentality among artists . This is also the root cause of Depression in artists . Another cause is Comparing your work with others . This Video was very informative and the fact that Emilia cared more about her mental health than her work was Refreshing But it is for a fact that you can be happy and creative at the same time . Emilia was into writing more of the dark stuff . That was her specialty . Once her depression was cured her writings changed doesn't necessarily mean it became bad just became different . Imagine Billie eilish suddenly switching to happier stuff . You wouldn't like it right? Well what I wanna say is You can be happy and Creative at the same time Stay Healthy , Stay Safe And most importantly Stay Happy !!
@Acer 025 Here’s how I see it. Everything we consume has its own way of affecting our creativity. Not just food but music, tv shows, art etc. How we receive the many different things our mind consumes is what ultimately has an effect on our creative thinking. I love how you see it though, just sharing my perspective😁
@@tlotlojasonletsholo1917 I agree. Of course we can't get into frequencies though. That was just a piece. Thanks for elaborating. Edit: Just breathe really deep a bunch of times.
RU-vid started recommending these to me without any context. I skipped the comments and just listened. I thought these, like the others in this channel, were metaphorical takes on mental illnesses and their weight on our life based on scientific researches/thesis. I thought they were real, a call out to others in this state. Today, I finally looked more into the description box and what other people have been saying. I'm actually very spooked. The stories recommended to me shooked me to the core, as I could deeply relate with them. Being isolated, having your friends and family drifting away because they don't understand how vile depression and anxiety are, doing something you love deeply but still lose it to the last ember over the years for reasons that you can't explain. Not being able to find joy in anything, and not being able to relate to others when they talked about their daily lifes because of how dysfunctional you are. Shifting to such a dark, pessimist mindset that even the internet will cast you out. And then you'll find yourself stranded with only your mind, disassociating further and further from the human being you used to be. It was scary, to think these stories would find me and speak to me like that. And I say it like this, because I didn't look for them, they were just appearing more and more on the corner of my screen when I logged-in.
@@masen_moto I believe it's because no idea is truly original and that every thought or big idea we think is our own is actually a combination of different inferior or superior ideas we've seen or experienced previously.
This is so accurate to what I feel when writing, thinking, and drawing. Creating morbid concepts and plots, but the drawbacks from depression also make it difficult by killing motivation or making happy material.
The last question the interviewer asked is what it all boils down to. Honestly, it sucks that there's a tradeoff between being miserable and successful or happy and unsuccessful, but I guess everything comes with a pricetag. When we think about creativity, we must understand that for the most part, our ability to think, ponder and reflect is a result of our consciousness and our advanced sense of awareness. The only thing is, we don't have a choice. Evolution has given humans the ability to wonder and pursue beyond our primitive instincts but our self-awareness comes at the cost of our well-being, but that may not be entirely necessary. At the end of the day, I'd personally prefer to be human and to have the ability to wonder and be awestruck rather than living with limited consciousness and self-awareness. It may be overwhelming at times and seem like a curse, but it also gives you an immense amount of freedom.
Exactly! When people say they have been cursed with consciousness, I'd be like ffs man, this is literally more freedom than u can ever imagine. The only things holding us down are stupid fuck bull shit stigmatic norms which we put on ourselves without our knowing or our families or society put on us. We're sooo Lucky. The chances of us being here is literally in trillions. Trillions. We should enjoy the very little limited time we have.
@@venkatdenduluri816 Yeah and the thing is, what people are honestly scared of is the lack of meaning in life, our advanced consciousness has made us realize that there's no real objective purpose to living and that has left people petrified and maybe even suicidal but when you really think about it, what's so wrong with life being meaningless? I mean, why does it matter that there's no reason to live? Why do we even have a desire to chase meaning?
@@FutureMindset I will tell you the meaning of life, and don't smirk. We are here to be HERE. There needs to be a here relative to there, and those that are there, wanting to get here, need a HERE, here, or somewhere. A safe, sustainable, here. People seem unable to literally psychologically link up the idea of spiritual, with imagination, with fictionalization as something existent beyond biology. Visible reality is completely visualized on our side of our eyes, colored in by light particles, that shed no discernible light, interacting with our eyes somewhere in the location of where we THINK our eyes are. We only know what we think, and that thinking can be fictionalized ad nauseam.
It’s funny that my best art comes from when I’m the happiest. My favorite drawings I’ve made are when I’m in a good mood and I’m talking to those I love, but also i seriously love drawing things and making stuff in general that have darker concepts too
This is so relateable. I used to write stuff about my take on philosopies and novels, I do that on nights when I just can't sleep and existential crisis hits me so hard that I feel numb and sad, but mostly empty and hatred. I used to pour it on paper and then type it down for my blog, and random people enjoys it. They said my take is "unique" and such. But later for the last few months, I moved in to share a room with one of my friend. I just don't have that much time to feel sad and alone anymore. I feel more stable, I feel loved. But now I can't write as good as I used to be, every work that I do feels plain and meaningless. I feel like I don't really have anything to scream about in my writing, as I already have people to listen to it near me. I don't know, is it better for me to try continue writing or is it better to just live this way Anyway thanks for coming to my rant, sorry if the english is not very good, english is not my mother language
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The biggest thing I took from this is, you can live your life however you want but recognise whatever you do is a CHOICE. You're in control of your mind, so you can choose to stay a certain way or change. There is no right answer, but you have to realise it's your choice. You are not just stuck as you are.
And it's always better to let go and welcome any changes that comes ,I believe change is the most important thing in anything, but I still meet people who still think the same way they did 5 year's ago and it makes me sad to see that because there's no growth no evolving in their life
@@Enzo-wx3vw I agree with you, conscious positive change is one of the most amazing things on offer to us. I understand seeing people and thinking that, but at least they're happy still!
This really made me think about my life. My earliest childhood memory of creation is that of me drawing little stick character comic strips of sci-fi adventures. In my late teens, I decided I wanted to become a writer. Even won a Writer's Guild award. But after a few submission rejections from Hollywood, and really seeing how the Television system worked, I got disenchanted with the whole affair and went back to college. Upon graduation, I started my own software company, and began creating computer programs (with tongue in cheek documentation) that earned me modest success. In the early 2000s, to distract from the day-to-day anxieties of running my own business, I discovered dance. I got good enough in dance to join a couple of companies, and soon after got the itch to choreograph -- that is, create. This impulse led me to begin creating shows (which I learned sort of as I went along). Now, I am using everything -- my desire to create art, my ability to learn new systems and technology, my passion for dance -- to create online dance shows. I have no idea how successful at this I will be, but I can tell you that today I am the happiest I have ever been in my life. I don't need pain and suffering to create art because the simple ability to create art brings me joy.
"i wish i could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. and yet i take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." "sometimes i can only groan, suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!" -frédéric chopin
As a young(and still growing) writer myself, I think that all emotions are taken into art. Sadness, happiness, all kinds of different emotions are what helps us create something close to a masterpiece. Not just because we're creative, but because we feel these things, and we turn them into an art.
As a creative person myself, this felt incredibly relatable. The peaks of my creative activity have almost always occured during times in which I went through mental hardships; the times when I had the least amount of activity - or produced "low quality" artwork - were in fact those when I was at my happiest. It truly does seem like a curse to one self. This video was very well made, loved it!
Would you trade it for happiness? I had this exact dilemma, ages before seeing this video. I couldn't give it up. And I'm not sure it's even truly possible. You are who you are.
@@Lux-ow5vf I think it truly depends on what we are aiming at in life. Personally, I've made the decision to stop trying to pursue art as a career but instead keep it as a hobby/mental outlet for whenever I feel like I want to express myself. Given that choice, I would probably trade it for happiness - I believe there are so many things to experience and to perceive in this world, that can both enrichen our life experience whilst simultaneously sparking new inspiration, that it would be all too sad to miss out on it because I'm sacrificing it on the decision to continue living a cursed life of perpetual emotional suffering and emptiness. Then again, I believe this "curse" is rooted so deep within us creatives that I can hardly imagine it being gone, which leads me to the conclusion: whether we want to get rid of it or not - a healthy balance of both happiness and suffering would probably be the ideal medium for a creator that wishes to enjoy life but also dive into creative realms once in a while:)
@@mererereonon I found that when I had the idea of recognition and money coming from art it made it hard to create. It felt cheap and forced. So for me it is also a hobby.
@@Lux-ow5vf Totally relatable! I just can't get myself to do something for extrinsic motives - or at least, it won't ever come close to what I believe I could produce if I did it for myself, instead of for others/money/recognition. Though I will have to admit that I do feel a little different about recognition. I tend to really like being recognized for the work I do for myself, which creates an interesting medium - I post personal art on my socials and if I happen to get recognized for the effort and message of said work, I do happen to feel very good about it (Which I would presume is completely normal).
This video is not about telling you to stop what you love to do, but to stop caring about the compliments from others, likes - dislikes, if you made something from heart sure it's precious not for others but for you. So be creative and happy.
I'm not sure what the point is, here. I definitely don't believe that depression ever helped anyone be a better artist. "The tortured artist" trope is highly romanticized, but I know from firsthand experience that treating my depression greatly improved my art. People tend to be a lot less productive at anything and everything when depressed.
Yea I agree the video makes a boring broad assumption at how art gets created I admit art sometimes does involve sacrifice but it doesn't jeopardize your state of mind in most cases it improves it.
I agree somewhat, however I definitely can relate. I was writing a lot of music when I was depressed, then I got better and kept writing for a little while and then stopped. It just doesn't work anymore and I'm very sure that's because I don't have to deal with these extreme emotions anymore. But I did get back into writing literature now and am mentally completely fine so yeah, as you said, it definitely is not as simple and often getting better mentally improves your art as well
@@arthurs1459 I don’t think that was the point it was pretty clear in the video that it wasn’t necessarily the art putting the pressure on her but life itself she was just vomiting out her depressed outlook she got from eating cheese. she merely assumed having depression was the only way to make good art so she suffered mindlessly and then when she became happy her perspective was all of the sudden worthless her art all the sudden bad? I think that’s why people are having some issues with this story because that just simply isn’t true you can make great art from a good place
@@oknotyet9630 I feel like the point was the last few seconds of the video. In the video she decided to not go to therapy because it could effect her work hence that her work was more important than her mental health.
The pleasant state of mind is very important for me than my art. As a “life” we are here to experience. So when you are in sorrow then go deep into it, feel it completely just so that when you experience joy, you can experience it to the fullest. We tend to be half happy and half sad. When we are sad, we question why we are sad and when will we become joyful. The habit continues and when you are happy subconsciously you want to be sad and feel like something is missing because we never go to the depth of life. Being satisfied, coming to peace with all your doubts and insecurities takes work. We feel comfort in our sadness and sense of familiarity. Sadness is our excuse to not work on being happy. We are lazy and are getting lazy everyday with growing use of “do what makes you happy”. When happiness is just a part of life and conditioned us to thinking “I am happy when I do this activity and rest of the world cannot bring me the peace I need” which is in turn a disrespect to life that you are given as a human being. You’re potential is more than your art. Art is your reflection, if you are a true artist, you are depressed - your art Expresss sadness. Just saying it better be something you don’t feel ashamed and regret when you go down the memory lane and be like “ I could have been in state of joy and expressed it.” There’s already darkness in the perception of the world your art would have not gain that much traction but atleast the message is out to people whom you can impact in a positive way. Even an ant’s efforts matters, you are human. When you’ll reach to the dead end of your life, you’ll only wish I could have just pushed through my sad routine and atleast could’ve tried. -Devrath
I think creativity mainly comes from problem solving. Sadness, obstacles, and suffering all activate energies inside of you that are basically aimed at making things better and understanding your own situation better. Once the problematic situation is gone, your creative energies dwindle, unless you manage to redirect them successfully.
