Myth: Everyone can’t be an artist
I heard it uttered from a senior in my Advanced Placement English class: “Everyone can’t be an artist, Mr. Vial. Get serious.”
How quickly we forget elementary school, where everyone could be an artist.
As children, we pick up crayons and draw. As adults, we put down the crayons for more sensible things, yet forget we can still be sensible, and color.
And as adults, we can find a new type of paintbrush: Why can’t an engineer, a scientist, a politician, a nurse be an artist in their field?
One doesn’t need to narrow art to only crayons; but even within that narrow definition, art is waiting to be created by hands of all sizes.
Sure, everyone is not destined to make a business from their art, but business and art are separate things, often only intertwined at the whim of luck, and adults must remain sensible, shouldn’t we.
Which is more sensible: An artless life, or a life where you find the medium that inspires you?
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