So, I was going to write this long post about doing what makes you happy and not letting the haters win, but instead I am going to let Harmonica Pierre make my point for me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yW61_XfMo
Harmonica Pierre is pretty much my favorite person EVER. He even makes that shitty Train song sound pretty good.
Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
On Caterpillars and Picasso
So I have a 2-year-old, and I stay at home with him.
Today at library story time the kids were making a craft, a caterpillar glued together out of cup-out circles (today's featured story time book was Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It's a great book until you have to read it approximately 6,784 times in one week). One mom told her toddler, "No! Not like that! That's not how caterpillars look!" I hope she didn't look at my kid's caterpillar, which looked like it had been hatched near a nuclear plant. I just kept thinking, "Pablo, don't paint like that! That's not how people look!"
I guess what I'm trying to say is, ignore the haters. You can do whatever you want in your art, whether it's writing or music or painting people made of squares or making freakish construction-paper caterpillars. You have an imagination. USE IT.
Today at library story time the kids were making a craft, a caterpillar glued together out of cup-out circles (today's featured story time book was Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It's a great book until you have to read it approximately 6,784 times in one week). One mom told her toddler, "No! Not like that! That's not how caterpillars look!" I hope she didn't look at my kid's caterpillar, which looked like it had been hatched near a nuclear plant. I just kept thinking, "Pablo, don't paint like that! That's not how people look!"
I guess what I'm trying to say is, ignore the haters. You can do whatever you want in your art, whether it's writing or music or painting people made of squares or making freakish construction-paper caterpillars. You have an imagination. USE IT.
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