Real-life fears are much creepier than embellished scenes from horror movies, like a killer doll or flesh-eating zombies. The common fears cause more discomfort than the average spook and are more complex. For any person with the fear, it can be devastating, preventing the victim from living wholly or causing him/her to create a routine focused on avoiding the fear triggers. Besides, tolerating the feelings that come from triggers isn’t even a question, as they are known to make the person feel like he/she is in a life-threatening situation. Therefore, this article highlights the fears that may destroy an artist.
1) Self-Doubt
It is possibly the number one fear of a creative professional. After all, we don’t create necessities but luxuries for the most part. As much as the art enriches our lives and the lives of others, it remains something that we (at least as customers) could perhaps live without. The solution for self-doubt is shockingly not a success. The world is filled with successful and famous artists, musicians and writers, and who are still riddled with depression and feelings of self-doubt.
Therefore, artists must find a way to live with such doubt and value the creative process as much as the artwork itself.
2) Originality
While it might be true that all the great themes and literature in art have already been done over a thousand times, it’s always possible to bring something entirely new for the process.
Let’s accept it, artists and writers and have been borrowing from their ancestors since there has been a thing called art. So, originality is the second fear that may destroy an artist.
3) Idea Stealing
One of the main fears that artists have is selling their work online. It is because they are afraid that people might steal their work or ideas. No doubt this happens, and that’s why many artists give this excuse to stay out of the online market altogether. While this is undoubtedly a real problem, you also have to understand that these parasites are a minority of the online population. Rest of the people are looking at your work online and have no intention of stealing your work; they are thoroughly enjoying it and perhaps, just interested in buying it.
4) Satisfaction
No artist is ever wholly satisfied with their artwork. Some pieces they may always like better than others, but the pursuit of perfection is like a mirage that keeps them creating. If you ask an artist what piece that the made that they like the most, they will say it’s one there doing now or the next piece.
In conclusion, these fears are just an illusion that may eventually consume them if they let them. Also, they will never get to the next stage of development as an artist unless they overcome their fears.