It's almost as if the first creative acts that get artists like this their fame are acts of desperation, undertaken against impossible odds.
Later when fame and money comes, the artist buys more and more tools in a fruitless chase to recapture the previous glory but he can't because the fame and money prevent him from ever again having the one thing that made his first works awesome... desperation.
Exactly. Stay hungry. Hunt outside your comfort zone. Break through your fears. Abandon that which does not serve you. Give it your all. Don't save any energy for the return trip. No bold knights can flourish in a peaceful country.
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It's almost as if the first creative acts that get artists like this their fame are acts of desperation, undertaken against impossible odds.
Later when fame and money comes, the artist buys more and more tools in a fruitless chase to recapture the previous glory but he can't because the fame and money prevent him from ever again having the one thing that made his first works awesome... desperation.
The best art is often produced under great constraints, something that usually disappears after commercial success.
Necessity is the mother of invention?
Exactly. Stay hungry. Hunt outside your comfort zone. Break through your fears. Abandon that which does not serve you. Give it your all. Don't save any energy for the return trip. No bold knights can flourish in a peaceful country.
You know the song.
Or is it simply that public focus is limited and ever shifting. Artists cannot recapture the previous glory because it is fickle.
If only there was a morality play somewhere we could have learned this lesson /s