Comments on: Angst http://julietchapman.com/blog/2008/03/19/angst/ Musings on the Nature of Art from An Artist in Nature Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Julie Chapman http://julietchapman.com/blog/2008/03/19/angst/#comment-55 Julie Chapman Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:53:13 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2008/03/19/angst/#comment-55 Suzanne, you've summed it up eloquently - art chooses us. And at the best of times, my ego disappears and there's just the next stroke of paint to be put on the canvas. Now and then someone (eg, a magazine interviewer) will ask "Why do you do art?". My answer is always "For the same reason I breathe. Because I have to." Suzanne, you’ve summed it up eloquently - art chooses us. And at the best of times, my ego disappears and there’s just the next stroke of paint to be put on the canvas.

Now and then someone (eg, a magazine interviewer) will ask “Why do you do art?”.
My answer is always “For the same reason I breathe. Because I have to.”

]]> By: Suzanne Ellis http://julietchapman.com/blog/2008/03/19/angst/#comment-54 Suzanne Ellis Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:33:16 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2008/03/19/angst/#comment-54 It is such a bittersweet thing to be an artist. I don't think we choose it. We have to do it. It is our nature. We need it like air or food. It is hard and exhausting. It is also lonely but the rare times when it works the 'I' disappears in the process. Then I am not lonely because I'm not there. It is such a bittersweet thing to be an artist. I don’t think we choose it. We have to do it. It is our nature. We need it like air or food. It is hard and exhausting. It is also lonely but the rare times when it works the ‘I’ disappears in the process. Then I am not lonely because I’m not there.

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