Hungry?

“It is good for workers to have an appetite; an empty stomach drives them on.”

That’s one of my favorite verses from Proverbs. It’s sort of funny how we forget at times why we work. We work so we can eat and feed our families. We don’t work just to work. We work for a goal.

Well, maybe we don’t forget why we work. But many artists do forget why they create.

We don’t create just to make something beautiful. We create out of hunger. Or at least we should. We need to be starving artists – using our art to propel us to something greater. Our art needs to be our food.

What are you trying to accomplish with your art? Are you desperate for it?

If not, you’ll probably never create to your capacity. You’ll dabble here and there. You’ll make some pretty stuff every now and then. But you’ll never truly create anything revolutionary.

Every creative revolution was birthed out of hunger. Hunger to see the world differently. Hunger to change the world. There needs to be hunger to drive the artist on.

So I ask you. What are you hungry for? What will propel you to create to your full capacity?

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