Answer The Call

“If the artist is happy with the work they’re creating and the viewer is enlivened by the work they’re experiencing, it doesn’t matter if they see it in the same way. In fact, it is impossible for anyone to experience your work as you do, or as anyone else does….The purpose of the work is to awaken something in you first, and then allow something to be awakened in others. And it’s fine if they’re not the same thing. We can only hope the magnitude of the charge we experience reverberates as powerfully for others as it does for us.” -Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

You can’t control how or if your art is received.

All you can do is answer the call ( or “the calling”) to make it.

But do make it. In whatever capacity you can. Because if you don’t answer the call, then rest assured my friend, it will haunt you forever.