Basant kumar
4 min readJun 4, 2022

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Are artists menace for society?

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If you ask anyone this question the answer you probably get is everyone is in the favour of artists until there is no one like them in their house. I’m asking this question to myself if all the peoples are supporting artists then why the fuck they don’t get their compensation. Where is the appreciation, respect they deserve? This society is totally bullshit and hypocritical. After all there is a limit of hypocrisy but society is above it. The values ,ritual

Society has created for itself nothing but a stream of blood and they want everyone to dip in that river. But artists are not murderers. They are the seed of creation from which enormous types of creation come out. The anger that all the artists have for the so called

Art supported society is no less than a volcano. When it explodes all the double faced people will have to pay for it.

People who think artists are stained to the face of society will never understand how the world will look without them. It would be like desolation of desert and they will be the inhabitant of the void. Buildings with weak foundations never stand long. The mirror they show to the world is a mirror of their deeds. They don’t want to face their own truth because they know how frightful their deed is. How can an artist follow the same routine as society does? The out of the box thought doesn’t come with small vexation. For that your structure of madness has to be pompom. But the time taken to work on that madness to pull out something creative, something unique, is still undefined. No one knows how much time it will take to be a masterpiece or it will always remain shit.

Do artists need naked but veiled society?

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I’m asking you what you think? In my opinion the answer is yes they need them. Everyone needs society. No one is complete without society. It’s made by people like you and me. From eternity there are rights and wrongs, ebony and ivory, light and dark. Moths had always known the light was going to destroy them yet they chased the light with full enthusiasm. Artists are like moths. They know the process of creation will demolish them but still they go under it with utmost passion. Because they know that’s life. If you did one thing with immoderate ardour in your whole life you have lived the whole life.

Is love mandatory to be an artist ?

It’s the question that every non-artist person keeps asking an artist. Let me tell you it’s crystal clear, still a secret. Love is compulsory for any kind of art. First you need to know that love is not only of one kind. It can be with anyone. It can be with a tree, plant, flower, sun, moon, sky, star, animal, all kinds of nature. It can also with be non living things it can be car, house, photo, building, design, roof, Road, stone, bench, chair silence anything. The line which is love has no boundaries is true. if anyone hasn’t got the answer yet I tell you the answer is yes! Love is mandatory to be extraordinary in your field of work. It motivates you to be different and to be unique. but the love between human to human is something different, it’s undefinable. the metaphors it gives no one can. The relevancy of this is beyond the world. This love incites the artists to some different level and degree to create the kind of art that the beloved would like. In that one person, an artist sees the whole world and then combines and weaves all those threads that are required to make an art.

Need of an artist

Do you ever think about what is the thing that artists need? What is the thing that an artist can’t get himself? Do artists really need something?

They don’t need anything, they live on imagination. They can live their whole life with one meal. All they need is imaginations with new metaphors.

Do you think the above statement is right? if it’s right where is the portion of reality? Does even reality matter for them? If yes then where is it?

What they need most is reality. imaginations are also connected with reality. Let suppose you see a thing and there is some incompleteness in it according to you. Only after seeing the shortage will you be able to fulfill it with imagination. If you can’t see the thing in the real world, how can you fill it without knowing the lack of content in it. The breath of an artist runs on possibilities and contradictions. what they show to the world is just a small fraction of what they imagine and contradicts in their mind. That mind game makes them different from others. but it’s a risky game. it can make you either fully artist or insane. it’s a two edged sword that could go any way.

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Basant kumar

First priority poetry/lyric writing. Threads of skill are in the process of making. Hunger can lower the level of art.