“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

When we create art, we put a piece of ourselves into it:  a small fragment of our soul, a sliver of the essence that makes us who we are.  

 

That is why our art becomes so personal to us.  This is why we take it so hard when others condemn what we have created.  They are criticizing that part of us that we have risked showing to the world. 

 

Despite this, we must keep putting ourselves out there, regardless of public reaction.  It is only through the making of art, that we are able to release a part of our soul.  We have to keep making art; be true to ourselves.  

 

I make this promise to myself: to continue doing what I love, despite the reaction I receive back from others.  Art comes from the soul and deserves to be seen.