You Are Still an Artist

Creativity isn’t about meeting quotas or churning out work on demand. It isn’t about productivity metrics, technical skill, or whether your art is "marketable." Art is who you are. It’s your voice, your vision, your way of seeing and interpreting the world.

Whether you paint, write, make music, perform, or create in ways that defy classification or are completely new - your art is valid. Even if you’ve stepped away, taken a break, or pursued another path to survive, you are still an artist.

The world does not need more sanitized, palatable, mass-produced art. It needs you. It needs the work that only you can make. If you’ve ever doubted yourself, let this be a reminder: your creativity matters, and it belongs to you, not to any system of judgment.