{"id":159221,"date":"2019-07-29T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=159221"},"modified":"2019-07-29T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:18:22","slug":"art-creation-as-the-ultimate-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/art-creation-as-the-ultimate-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Art-Creation as the Ultimate Goal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if the best thing you could do for yourself and humanity is to create the most epic art-works you are capable of?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For example, don’t think of yourself as a photographer. Think of yourself as an artist. As an artist, it seems that our only duty in life is to create the most epic art-works we are capable of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Life is short, art is long<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You will die. But your artworks have the ability to outlive you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will die, but our ideas, art creations, and thoughts can continue to have a ripple effect on future humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, I am still deeply influenced by the thoughts, artworks, and philosophies of those who have come before me, but have died. This include Steve Jobs<\/a>, Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>, Picasso<\/a>, Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/a>, and many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make art for yourself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I know that for myself as a photographer-artist<\/a>, I have made the best art-photos when I was simply trying to please myself. Not trying to impress others. Having ‘creative isolation<\/a>‘ from the online photography social media world. Deleting my Instagram<\/a>. Building more of my own blog\/website platform, instead of becoming a ‘digital sharecropper<\/a>‘ on the land of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simple ideas:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Delete Instagram, stop using social media, and start building your own website\/blog<\/strong>. Build a domain with 1and1.com and install wordpress.org, and start posting everything to your own website\/server\/platform.<\/li>
  2. Creative isolation is good:<\/strong> As Nietzsche says, put at least the skin of 300 years between you and your contemporaries. Think uber long-term. Strive to make a great legacy for yourself. Think after your death. Avoid shallow and short-term gains.<\/li>
  3. Make photos which put a smile on your face, and photos which you consider beautiful and elegant. You are the ultimate judge of your own images.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    A thought: What if the best thing you could do for yourself and humanity is to create the most epic art-works you are capable of? For example, don’t think of yourself as a photographer. Think of yourself as an artist. As an artist, it seems that our only duty in life is to create the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-ricoh-gr-iii-21mm-USC47.jpeg?fit=6000%2C4000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159221"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159248,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159221\/revisions\/159248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}