Brent Ray Fraser on Your Art – April 20, 2008

You’ve got to love your art, more than life and more than yourself. You create art in every aspect of your daily life. It is what makes you who you are. Never let anything stop you from being who you are born to be. Love your arts audience, for they feed its bloodline. Never let negativity damage your creative edge. Let it nourish your understanding of others interpretation into your arts characteristics. The emotions of others will naturally manifest around your art. Your ideas are neither good nor bad. They are critical. Critical to how you go about your process. Accept both the “good” and the “bad” criticism. Do not disregard what may seem as “bad” criticism or negative emotions towards your art. Use it like you would a new material and guide it towards becoming a beautiful aspect within what you see as a positive attribute.

Many frown upon unwanted or “abnormal” human characteristics. Others see those undesirable qualities as unique traits that set them apart from the rest. Who wants to be the same as everyone else? Think about it. Your art is who you are. Never hate yourself and never think less due to what others may say.

Promote yourself. Positive actions are followed by positive characteristics and with a positive energy and outlook you can represent who you are to the world through your work in all earnestness.

Above all, never stop doing what you love to do and never do anything you don’t want to do. You have the ability to create ideas in your mind and an even greater ability to show others your imagination within your art. This is an attribute that many for granted. If you have the ability, don’t let it slip through you hands.