Artist vs Entertainer vs Creator
exploring the differences
Artist vs Entertainer vs Creator
excerpts from my essay “everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance” ☁️🫧
Dani Offlinesubstack.comThis is the birth of the artist as we understand it today: someone possessed of a vision and talent that makes them stand apart.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
This is where a line from Steve Martin becomes less a provocation and more a diagnosis. He once said, “I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”
I’m fairly certain he wasn’t aiming to insult artists when he said it.
When people set out to “make art,” what they often mean is that... See more
I’m fairly certain he wasn’t aiming to insult artists when he said it.
When people set out to “make art,” what they often mean is that... See more
Julie Crosby • Stop Trying to Make Art
Art is about the maker.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Anyone who creates anything for a living oscillates between two extremes.
The first being the desire to garner a larger following for your work.
The second being the urge to flee the grid and dedicate your life to a craft whose worth is not determined by an algorithm designed by an army of... See more
instagram.comon and creates the context of the world around it. Art of any kind endures because it captures some understanding, some piece of the world, so purely that it becomes a piece of the world itself.
