If You’re still furiously making art as you age there is probably something very wrong with you. You missed the turn off to a normal life and now your just barreling blind into the night down that endless pitch black freeway alone. But the world’s starving for your madness.
Artist dont Retire. They just drop dead one day. Retirements for people with Jobs. Not for people obsessed with something that keeps them from walking into traffic.
I don’t trust those who have life fully solved by the time they’re 25. Thats where their story ends. And Soon they are 50 and built their life around the wisdom of their 25 year old self. They’re fully anesthetized and asleep by the time they’re 30 ,they wake up around fifty to take a piss in the middle of life’s night. Then they’re back to paying parking fines and doing renos in their sleep until they die. I still have no Idea what I’m doing at 50. Just following the old broken compass of my shoulder shrug. Id rather be a fish flopping about on a pier gasping for air wide eyed and amazed by the ghost of stars. Were all dropped into the maze of life but quickly you find everyone runs in one direction while you decide to wander alone in the other Looking to find a more interesting way into life to find a more beautiful way out. It’s a dumb mix of stupidly and courage riding on the wings of luck. It feels like Flying and if it feels like flying I’m doing something right. You have to honor you divine dumbness its the smartes thing you have.
The world has always been a battle between dead poets and living accountants.