Self-taught art

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I feel, out of my experience, that auto didactic studies stimulate curiosity and enrich authenticity, while as formal studies fixate thinking patterns and intensify fear from the rejection of the consensus to unusual approaches. That is why I was afraid of approaching art until no too long ago.

However, in the last few months I have discovered that studying art enriches and deepens my capacity immeasurably. Yes, you might be a genius within the limited space of your bedroom, but once you exit that boundary you might find out that that which was the crowning glory of your creation and the source of your pride and consolidated assured self-esteem, was actually already revealed 250 years ago and that much more has been studied and learned since. Of course, not in my case…

Declaration of megalomania

It is possible to operate within a vacuum and there is no doubt that many atimes it is necessary for a deep and truthful process of growth, but I believe that emerging to the surface from time to time in order to integrate the inner with the outer is absolutely necessary, if you really consider yourself a research scholar of the mind and an artist as a result of that.

But maybe for those who really create art only for themselves and truly as a method of exploring the reality and nothing else, as did Paul Cezanne for example, it is possible to remain within that vacuum. But me? …I wanna conquer the world.