Art.

[Oedipus Rex]

Art is everywhere.
It is on the walls, the ceilings, the floors, the desks.
Everywhere.
Everywhere but on my paper.
Everywhere I look I see mini Mona Lisas and represented Sistine Chapels.
However when I look down at my fruits of labor, albeit a doodle or a work that I founded with hours of my time, I see only scribbles in comparison to the masterpieces that those around me seem to create in their sleep.
I find myself thinking that I am not worthy of this beauty, that I should be shunned and shot down for even having the audacity of trying.
Whether it be drawings, music, literature, or anything. All I see are scribbles and scratches, taunting me with scraping voices and sharp teeth.
Things were so much easier when I was younger, where everybody drew men made of sticks and cars with deformed wheels, but now it seems as though everybody boarded the train to success and I was left in the dust.
Every finger painting or hand print that I made was worshiped as a great work of art.
Now I can't even bare the sight of anything I create with my wretched hands, I see it as a second class piece of trash that deserves no mercy in termination.
And things will always be this way, with art coating my books, coming from my radio, and the structure of my libraries.
Art will continue to be everywhere.
Except where I am.

I apologise for the ranty post but I just felt like this belonged here.

[anoni]

You can never be the best at everything.
You will look and work hard and hard, and there will be those people that you will see that are better than you, or at least how you perceive them to be. You will look at their work and believe you are inefficient and perhaps maybe you will work harder. In years and years time, your work will be much better than the work of these people, and you will look at their work and you will know it's that much better, but do you know what you will actually do? You will look at other peoples work, people who are still better than you, and you will STILL think your work is bad.

My point is, that a lot of the time you compare only to those that are better, if this motivates you then for sure go ahead, but if it demotivates you that's bad. Remember, you are most likely a better artist than a lot of people, but you look at the people who seem to be a better artist than you and you FORGET about everyone else, all the people (like me) who simply don't draw anything beyond stick figures. You need to put things in perspective and realize your art isn't bad, it's not the best, but only one person out of 7,000,000,000 can be the best and guess what? With things like art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe one day, you'll find one person who thinks your art is the best art in the world, and tbh, that's all you really need for your art to be considered amazing.

[Rocoro T. Pup]

Interesting philosophy. You make it seem like as we age, art becomes more of a challenge to create/understand than in our youths, where we were wild in our creations

[nixon/monto]

I do miss those days. Don't you Rocoro?

[BakaFawkes]

OH MY GOSH ARE YOU ALL BLIND 
 
Re-read what you just wrote. That's some art right there. From the second I started reading your post, it sounded just like poetry in my head. Seriously, look at the use of feelings, and the metaphors are unique.

[Vosur Aekira]

Paraphrasing Martha Beck on this one:

"Although art may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."

[nixon/monto]

Ya! That was art. Really cool to.

[BakaFawkes]

See? people are so darn talented and hey don't even know it!
*sobs*