Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Do all artists have to be slightly mad?

Comments

[yndy.livejournal.com]

no... it's just that those who can't create art, or sometimes even appreciate it, are the ones who refer to themselves as sane...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That's a great slant on it... I'm of the opinion that the creative faculty itself is hard to understand, hence it's almost always misunderstood :)

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

no...it's just those that don't understand art that say artists are mad,because they just don't understand...and people tend to disagree with what they don't understand and call it wrong,stupid,mad and so on...so artists are normal...the others have a problem *rolls eyes* :P

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Indeed :)

[kosta-pasta.livejournal.com]

everyone has his own madness, not just artists..:)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Some more than others :)

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Nope. Sometimes they have to be slightly happy.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

In that case, I'm good, cuz I'm HAPPY!

[kabandra.livejournal.com]

Of course! ;)

But aren't we all at least a little mad here?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yup :)

:D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Great answer :)

[reynold.livejournal.com]

I like my artists a little mad, my engineers have to be totally insane!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

A certain Mr. Brown? LOL!

[amberpixiewolf.livejournal.com]

yes we do.........(i even live at the funny farm.....no, really......honest, thats what the house is called, lol)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL! :)

[new-dawn.livejournal.com]

yes since ALL humans are slightly mad

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yup, and the ol' Planet Earth is just one big asylum :P

[macpurp.livejournal.com]

what is mad anyway?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Anything not normal?

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

Artists always tend to stray from what is normal, always have a little bit of eccentricity in their personalities, are generally very outspoken, usually defy the mainstream (and the government, haha!) ... having all these traits make those other "sheep" in society view you as "mad" since artists can be so brazen about their views and life and self and it always seems to go against what is seen as acceptable behavior. I don't know if artists ARE actually mad, it's just the term attached to them by outsiders.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Excellent answer :D

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

No...but it couldn't hurt. ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

:D

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

i prefer to be really pissed off, rather than just slightly.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

u bet

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

No. Creativity + hard work = art. (This is, incidentally, why I have produced no art to speak of. I hate hard work. If madness were all that was needed, I'd be well on my way already.)

Madness can be a plus (James Christiansen) or a minus (Phillip Pullman) and it certainly affects the art...but it's not a requirement.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Writing isn't hard work!!!!!

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Before I answer that, I want a definition of "mad", "sane", and "artist".
That aren't personally offensive.

[aishaelderwyn.livejournal.com]

See, this is what I am talking about. I want these answers too!

[lipzofs0rr0w.livejournal.com]

define mad?

There is no doubt in my mind that an artist needs to be inventive and thinkg differently. There is no doubt that pain creates some of the best features, but so does happiness. If being slightly mad is developing dependancy issues and a fear of failure... then yes, some of the best were insane loopy people.

Van Gough cut his ear off. Jim morrison was a self identified lizard king. Lennon said he was bigger then christ.


You figure it out.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Excellent answer :)

[burnedfeather.livejournal.com]

That feeling you get from a piece of art... that WOW factor... can only be deliverered from an artist that is in some way away from normal. You just wouldn't care about something that lacks any life or emotion. And since the drive to express one self's emotion to strangers is not normal... that would make ALL artists mad.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It would definitely make "normal" people think they're mad...

When really, it's just an unusual perspective :)

[mjtheanarchist.livejournal.com]

Slightly mad? Hell no. I'm pissed off all the time.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That's just a front and you know it ;)

[aishaelderwyn.livejournal.com]

Just for reference, what type of artist are we discussing?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Anyone who shows a greater capacity for creating art in any of its forms :)

[infinitywhisper.livejournal.com]

heh. no. just eccentric.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Ah, but to the ordinary folk, eccentric is mad!

[torisrabbit.livejournal.com]

lol...in some weird way. i think that is why they are creative.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yup :)