Artists and Writers

Artists and writers; could you not say we're both the same.  Although our methods are different, we're both after the same goal.  We transcend reality, make beautiful what is ugly, and cement our creativity into something tangible.  A writer paints a picture with words and an artist tells a story with a picture.  We both infuse meaning into the meaningless.

              Our works are our legacies.  We want our ideas, thoughts, and feelings to survive us.  They are proof of our existence.  Our descendants will know we loved, hated, lost, gained, nurtured, suffered and survived.

            We are also escapists.  We fabricate new realities, new adventures, or simply immortalize a special moment lost in the blink of an eye.  Our craft is our religion.  We whole heartily believe in the worlds we birth.  Although we begrudgingly admit these are not the worlds we live in, we still put our hearts and souls into spreading the gospel.

            What differences are there between an artist and writer?  Is it words and pictures?  A word is a visual representation of an object, a symbol for it.  Letters, themselves, are just a symbol of a sound, a picture of a noise.  Is art simply to make something pleasing to the eye?  Can words themselves not be considered an art form?  Calligraphy makes words themselves into art. Books tell stories and invoke emotions.  A piece of artwork can tell a thousand stories and invoke the same diversity of emotions.

            Artists and writers are the same type of creature.  We mold our thoughts and feelings so others can perceive them.  We inspire, invoke, and invite our audience.  We bare our souls for all to see.  We challenge ourselves to see and interpret what others cannot.  Artists and writers; could you not say we're both the same.