Many a great artist has succeeded by not conforming to the normal, it may take some time to pay off and it pays off in ways that often don't make money, but it pays off within the soul far deeper than any amount of money could afford.

There are lots of jobs to be had if you wish to choose a soulless mindless sales job, but they don't pay well, you're expected to be robotic in your actions and words, wear a uniform and are never given a moments grace to feel the least bit emotional or creatively inspired. I hate that and refuse to give in easily to another dead end job with no prospects, little pay, no thanks and a whole lot of hard work that is never good enough for the manager’s profit margin.

You know; I'm sure, as well as I do, that within the human being there is so much more to work towards than keeping the boss happy.

We live in a society nowadays that needs its workhorses for the supply and demand of a greed that is running out of control. The world today is too busy in most parts ‘taking’, that they've forgotten the meaning of giving or caring.

The nature of depression, often for those who suffer from it, is something that comes and goes and places one on stand still when it comes, when it goes for a while we might seem to take life as a breeze, but then depression stops us in our tracks, it's like being on a roller coaster which has not yet been fully built we roll around quite merrily for a while and when we reach our highest point the track runs out and we get stuck in mid-air not knowing how to go back to safe ground or how to continue our journey. It takes a lot of hard work to roll back into a happy mood and feel capable of standing on our feet again.

I think that creative minds are often more apt to suffer depressive illness because our minds are so active, our bodies are not so, but all that mental stuff takes a lot of energy and wears us sometimes. But within the creative process there is much to be said of good energy being used for if people never were creators of things this world would be a pretty dull place.

Creation is useful and supports existence as much as it relieves the artistic mind of its need to constantly create and express its ideas.

To not be able to create is where the artist feels most dead. If you take away the creative flow the artist simply feels lost and confused, lifeless and void.

It is our purpose to create and we need to do that. Simple. Without creators, such as musicians the music shop would have nothing to sell, without artists to paint pictures, the galleries would be empty and we'd have nothing to hang on our walls etc.

Most people forget there was a tin can creator yet they eat out of them everyday for example. They don't see the artists all around them who make their very existence more comfortable and easy because they only see the workhorses and the greed factor.

Living itself is hard enough for an artist who has no outlet for their work as yet, but still the work we produce has it's meaning. Why should we compromise our life’s work for a whole lot of wasted time behind the cash till?

I think though there is some art that although it may have meaning and be very well thought out, symbolic even; it is not functional or practical in the every day life, so it fills up your average gallery and gets viewed but beyond that it has no real function except the function of being an art exhibit.

When people think of modern art; they are increasingly thinking along those lines, they tend to see past the everyday and traditional art 'as art' and more as an everyday commodity. People who buy an art piece from a shop don't think about who the artist or photographer was I mean, most the time they think oh isn't that pretty!

It's not for an artist to expect credit so much. It's more important the work is a credited for what it is ‘art’.

Artists have always been in the shadows of their work. However there is still the need to create and the demand for the creations...so where are the jobs? Most often; self-employed, or unemployed. Otherwise finding their way in something close to what they enjoy doing, I mean in photography for example it may be in wedding photography.

And yet still the results are all people care about, not the actions. That's life my dears! Sad but true.