Artist's Manifesto/Creed/Mission Statement.

I, ___________________, will make art because I want to.

I will make one original work or pop out one idea a day.

I will enjoy looking at art almost as much as making it.

I will experiment with and delve into art making both popular and obscure.

I will fail.

I will triumph.

I will believe in myself and doubt myself.

My muse will kick my rear end in both reality and fantasy.

I will take more chances.

I will connect to the learned know-it-alls and attract and amaze the regular guy.

I will believe what I want to believe in and thumb my nose at gimmick and trends.

I will both conform and live on the left side of the radio dial.

I may not be as smart as you(booksmart, trash talker, name dropper, pop culture knowledge bank, art history speak, etc.) but give me adequate tools and I will create a smart, multidimensional, deep and profound, riddle-like statement in a manner that suits my soul.

I will admire and utilize simplicity and complexity. I will believe that both can walk hand in hand or apart, if need be. Redundant, maybe. Possible, for sure.

I will talk less and work more.

I will eat, drink, love, and sleep art, family, and inspiration.

I will fall apart physically. It’s because I am “working out” artistically.

I will fuse realism, abstraction, cartooning, expressionism, fantasy, and narrative.

I will claim to have it all figured out and be a clean slate at the same time.

(Feel free to add to this if you'd like,I wrote it one night, in my sketchbook, in a fury. It is largely unedited.I truly believe in and hope to live true to this manifesto/creed/mission statement.