Artists are Human

[The Creative Call – I]

Creativity strikes me as the greatest “skill" in times of widespread confusion.

Vision for the future is important, but the future is cloudy, and most so-called visionaries are puffed up egotists. Critical analysis is needed, but it’s often bias and self-serving and blinded by the story that we want (or need) to tell; we skew the facts to say anything.

Creativity cuts through the noise. It draws on unmediated experience of the past and creates, in real time, a potential future.

Artists are simply those that say “Yes” to their creativity. They produce first. Consume second. They are visionaries, social critics, analysts, and philosophers, all rolled into one. But artists are not only eccentric, depressed, isolationists. Artists are everywhere, in every profession, and of every personality type. Some wear suits, some khakis, and some blue jeans, but they all have to put them on one leg at a time. That is to say, all artist are human, just like you and me.

Creativity comes in many packages, but all of them are a type of art, and all of them require an artist.

People like us are artists. And the world needs our vision, our reflections, our art—now more than ever.