HOW TO BECOME AN ARTIST (IN SIMPLE STEPS)

These past few days I have been thinking about what it means to be an artist.

What does it truly mean to be an artist? Is this title something you proudly wear like a badge of honor, or does it feel more like a burdensome backpack filled with bricks and existential dread? Should you embrace it with open arms or tiptoe around it as if it were a precious secret? These are the questions that keep me up at night.

That’s why I asked Chat GPT “How to become an artist”. The answer didn’t quite satisfy me, so amidst a mini mental breakdown I wrote my own self destructive guide on “How to become an artist in 28 simple steps”.

PLEASE NOTE: Mental health is a serious topic! I do not support or condone suicide in any way!

HOW_TO_BECOME_AN_ARTIST_in 28 simple steps

1. Go to art school.
2. Realize that everything has been done before, way better than you could ever do.
3. Have a mental breakdown every two months.
4. Stop creating art.
5. Get a conventional job.
6. Realize six months in that you are unhappy with conventional job, because you want to do art.
7. Leave conventional job.
8. Disappoint your parents.
9. Get rejected by many open calls, galleries and art foundations.
10. Push away everyone around you, isolate.
11. Work constantly on art.
12. Your storage is full of old artworks molded and ruined by time.
13. Be broke.
14. You have failed.
15. Start going for walks contemplating your failed life.
16. In one of your walks get to know an older guy.
17. Older guy wants to be your sugar daddy.
18. Your sugar daddy provides you with everything you ever wanted.
19. Create art easily, big pieces, everything you always wanted to create.
20. Your sugar daddy gives you a group of people that work for you, helping you create.
21. Now that everything is easy for you, you don't consider your work as art. “Art is suffering.”
22. You have failed once again.
23. You are not an artist.
24. Commit suicide.
25. Your sugar daddy is sad.
26. Your sugar daddy sells all your work in prestigious galleries and private collectors.
27. Everybody loves your art.
28. He becomes more rich than he ever was.

Chat GPT’s answer on “How to become an artist in 10 simple steps”