“What Keeps An Artist Away From Their Art?”

This is a question I have been pondering for a long time. I have been an artist myself for most of my life and I have worked as a creative consultant for several years as well as teaching workshops for artists and art students. I have found that there are many reasons why an artist may be locked away from their true passions.

What keeps an artist away from their art? It’s a question that has been asked for thousands of years and many artists will be able to tell you exactly why they haven’t been creating.

I’ve tried to come up with a list of reasons why I may stay away from my art. There really aren’t that many. But sometimes I can go for weeks without creating anything because of one reason or another. So here is my list, though I am not sure if it will resonate with other artists:

1) I feel like my last work wasn’t good enough and I don’t want to post it online or show anyone.

2) I feel like no one cares about the content that I create and it’s not worth the effort.

3) It takes too much time to create things and I am busy with other things.

4) I don’t know what to create next, so I’m saving all my ideas for later on.

5) I have writer’s block because of the above reasons.

6) Someone told me that what I was doing wasn’t right and now I am afraid to do anything else.

7) The work itself is just too hard and it would take me forever to finish.

8) My computer is

There are many reasons why an artist can stay away from his or her art. This is a blog that discusses the different reasons and suggests solutions to these problems.

The biggest reason why artists stay away from their art is because they are not in the right place mentally. If they are not in the right state of mind, they cannot create good work.

Another reason is that an artist thinks that he or she needs to have a certain skill before they can start working on their art. This is not true at all; people create art as soon as they can hold a pencil.

A third reason is that sometimes an artist thinks that no one will like their work if it does not meet a certain quality (such as having perfect technique). This is not true either; many artists have had success with their first works.

Other reasons include having bad experiences with previous failures and being too self-conscious about what other people think of their work.

I am an artist, or at least I consider myself one. I’m a poet, a writer and a singer/songwriter. I have been writing, or trying to write, for years and have never finished anything, not even a poem. I’ve written lots of poems but never finished them. Sometimes I will start to work on something and just stop because it feels like it’s going nowhere.

Thing is, when I’m not writing, or doing music stuff, I usually feel pretty good about myself. But when I go back to my poetry or music it always seems like such a worthless waste of time. It feels like the kind of thing that people who aren’t really artists do—the kind of thing that people do in high school when they’re bored out of their minds and nothing interesting is going on—and it makes me feel pathetic for still doing it now that I’m older and “supposed” to be an adult.

What keeps an artist away from their art?

There are many reasons an artist may stay away from their art. Here are some of them, in no particular order:

Fear. Fear is the mind killer. It is a powerful emotion that can keep us from doing good work. There are different kinds of fear that can affect artists and writers. The most common one is the fear of failure or success. Fearing failure often causes us not to try at all; fearing success keeps us from exploring new ways of working and finding our voice. Either way we miss out on new opportunities for growth and change.

Fear is part of life, but it’s possible to lessen its grip through a combination of confronting it head on and by setting realistic goals for ourselves that are not too high or too low (which can actually be much harder than setting huge goals).

Fear is usually accompanied by at least one other emotion, such as self-doubt, which can be even more destructive to your creativity than fear itself. Sometimes it’s not so much fear as it is perfectionism (the desire to do something perfectly) that stops us from pursuing creative projects. Perfectionism leads us to procrastination and the inevitable paralysis it brings about. Perfectionism stifles creativity because there is no way to make something perfect before you

The first blog post is an introduction about the series of blogs I intend to post.

The second post is about why some people choose not to make art at all. The third post is about the reasons why people do create art but don’t allow themselves to share it with others.

The fourth post is a discussion of why some people choose not to share their art with others even though they have been creating art for a long time.

The fifth post discusses why some people only share part of their work with others and keep other parts private. The sixth post discusses why some people feel like they have to keep their work secret even from their close friends and family. The seventh post discusses how some people compare their art to other artists and decide that it isn’t good enough to show anyone else. The eighth post discusses how some people are afraid of censure from their family, friends, and society as a whole if they share their artwork publicly. The ninth post discusses how some people are concerned that someone may steal or copy their art if they show it to someone else. The tenth post discusses how some people keep their art secret because they think that no one will be interested in what they are doing anyway.*

Artists are always looking for ways to be more productive. But how do you get started when the motivation just isn’t there? I’ve been there many times, and I think I’ve found a way to get myself going.

I’ve noticed that when I’m stuck in a rut, there’s usually some reason why I’m not motivated to make art. Here are the most common reasons:

1. The work is too hard or takes too long.

2. The work is too easy or takes no time at all.

3. Someone else has done it already or done it better.

4. I have nothing to say right now, or no one wants to hear it.

5. There’s no audience for what I want to do anyway (or no one who will pay me).

6. The art world is a mess, and there’s no point trying to enter it until things get better.

7. My life is chaotic and stressful and if I can’t handle that well then there’s no way I’ll be able to handle the additional stress of making art regularly in addition to everything else that’s going on in my life.”