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Be it a sculptor in Vietnam, a poet in Brazil, a painter in Toronto, a singer in St. Petersburg, an actor in Kansas City or (in many cases) a chess player anywhere in the world, artists are happier and more detached from political bickering, financial market fortunes (or misfortunes) inclement weather, transportation disruptions and many other things that anger and depress the rest of us; this despite periods of financial need. Maybe we all need a little more artistic creation in our life.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/zig-zag/201409/happy-artists

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I don’t think succes has anything to do with being artistic and happier.

Just being creative in your spare time, rather than plumping out in front of a TV or melting your brains with social media will make one happier.
Yes. It costs more energy, but it’s more satisfying too.

Just write a story, learn an instrument, paint (even colour by numbers). Just do instead of be.

And you’ll be happier.

I learned to play the guitar after my brother caught me playing Darkness on the Edge of Town in front of a mirror and 40.000 imagined fans with a badminton racket (I was 16 with a face like a melted pizza).

So much fun! Wrote 40+ songs. Played live. Etc.
And I sing like a strangled cat, am tone deaf and have a sense of rhythm my wife (who’s a former jazz singer) calls: “disturbingly off.”

But hell, do I ever look sexy with a telecaster!

I wrote a ton of poems as well.
Well, I call them poems, but friends described them as sarcastic filth…

But hey! If you can’t appreciate the genius of: “The Hand Held Masturbation Machine.” don’t blame me for your lack of culture!
(It was about an empty toilet roll, a balloon and a princess Leia figure… don’t ask).

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@shavixmir said
I don’t think succes has anything to do with being artistic and happier.

Just being creative in your spare time, rather than plumping out in front of a TV or melting your brains with social media will make one happier.
Yes. It costs more energy, but it’s more satisfying too.

Just write a story, learn an instrument, paint (even colour by numbers). Just do instead of b ...[text shortened]... k of culture!
(It was about an empty toilet roll, a balloon and a princess Leia figure… don’t ask).
Oh don’t worry we won’t ask,
But your right an artist might be found in an allotment growing purple carrots whilst a successful songwriter might just be doing their very mundane workaday job.

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@mchill said
Be it a sculptor in Vietnam, a poet in Brazil, a painter in Toronto, a singer in St. Petersburg, an actor in Kansas City or (in many cases) a chess player anywhere in the world, artists are happier and more detached from political bickering, financial market fortunes (or misfortunes) inclement weather, transportation disruptions and many other things that anger and depress the ...[text shortened]... ic creation in our life.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/zig-zag/201409/happy-artists
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" -- John Lennon

I think art is often the same.

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@mchill
Well not ME. I am an artist, a musician with a track record and I HATE the republican party right now, which should not even be called republican, maybe you can come up with a suitable pejorative name for these folks totally hypnotized by Trump.

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@sonhouse said
@mchill
Well not ME. I am an artist, a musician with a track record and I HATE the republican party right now, which should not even be called republican, maybe you can come up with a suitable pejorative name for these folks totally hypnotized by Trump.
Write a song and chill.

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@shavixmir
Well it is not YOUR country up for grabs by Authoritarians....
BTW, about the music bit, I have 132 tracks on Soundcloud, about half my own compositions, acoustic fingerpicking on guitar and picking on mandolin and keyboards. If you are interested in hearing my drivel, I can PM you details.

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@Duchess64
I would like to see some of your work on artists or art.

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@sonhouse said
@shavixmir
Well it is not YOUR country up for grabs by Authoritarians....
BTW, about the music bit, I have 132 tracks on Soundcloud, about half my own compositions, acoustic fingerpicking on guitar and picking on mandolin and keyboards. If you are interested in hearing my drivel, I can PM you details.
Yeah. I’ll give it a listen!

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Wow Duchess with all your other talents you are also a composer/musician/singer?
Is there anything you can't do?


@sonhouse said
@mchill
Well not ME. I am an artist, a musician with a track record and I HATE the republican party right now, which should not even be called republican, maybe you can come up with a suitable pejorative name for these folks totally hypnotized by Trump.
Trumplicans.

The Dazed and Confused.

Bumper Sticker: "I sold my soul to Donald Trump and all I got was this lousy MAGA hat."

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Yet you seem to know all kinds of fabulous people with all manner of big jobs and experience. You frequently mention knowing someone who's up on whatever is being discussed. You are a real renaissance man.

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