Recently, I came across a message from one of my readers named Tom who posted a simple but profound comment, "But when the entrepreneur is bleeding money and the artist can no longer buy art supplies it's a sad day indeed." I sat with this comment for a few days, until a response finally began to bubble up.
First of all it's well known that when he couldn't afford brushes, the emotionally tormented Vincent Van Gogh made his own, with sticks and horsehair. Proving that if you're a true "committed" artist or entrepreneur, NOTHING can stop the creative urge within from getting out. Actually, you have no choice. Like a raging, rushing river, the torrential flow of great ideas and pure creativity MUST find its way through the rocky resistance of fear and doubt in order to ultimately arrive at the ocean of expression. Give up, and that river dams up somewhere deep within the dark, inner world of the artist causing frustration, resentment, envy, anger, and too often, resignation.
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