
YOU ARE NOT AN ARTIST
“Hogwash”? A typical “sour grapes” attitude if I ever saw one.
Nobody says it is either inspiration or hard work. Muse very much expects and commends hard work.
Toiling away without that gift of inspiration, without the Muse, will make you a good artizan at best. Being gifted — being inspired AND working hard, makes a good artist. That is the difference.
I am sorry to hear you were never visited by a Muse. If you were, you would have known. Since you that did not have that privilege, your only choice was indeed either to believe or not. So you shout “Hogwash!” Naturally you deny her existence. No need to be such a bad sport though! Look, not everyone was born to be an artist. Every gifted person, every artist KNOWS a muse. No need to BELIEVE in her. I would say you were just not meant to be in the business of creating art. Not to worry my friend. There are many other professions where hard work is all you need to be good at them. Leave art to the artists. Those who know their Muse intimately. That is how extraordinary works of art are created. Not everybody can be Van Gogh , or Edgar Allan Poe or Rembrandt, or Rodin, Michelangelo, or Dante Aleghieri or Omar Khayam…
A consolation for you: life of an artist is not an easy one. Sometimes it takes even a whole century for the ordinary folks to understand and appreciate the true work of art. Especially if they do not even believe in the existence of the Muse.
