I want to make sure that when I entice you to go to my music website with a special Evan’s Garden offer or bonus, that you understand my motive in this little bribe. 😉
It isn’t to blow my own horn (well, there may be a horn there but…) or cuz I think I’m the ultimate utmost. 😀 What I consider about my art, whether I adore it, am unsure of it, think it could blow up the sofa when turned up loud, make someone cry for joy or cry for pain, whatever I may think of it is neither here nor there. In truth, it is all about you.
An artist is someone who is not a hermit spiritually. He may have removed himself from the busy traffic lanes of the world to attain enough quiet in his own universe to be able to contact himself with focus and thus, whew, create. Even if he lives as one, he is not spiritually the hermit.
He steps aside enough to take good note of what he is feeling, so as to cast it into an effective carrier form. Why? He has decided to share. The artist wants to reach others to deliver something that gets understood and elicits a response. A great artist is a master of communication and elicits a vivid response.
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