Here to 'live out loud'

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” – Emile Zola

 

Writers, artists, songwriters, performers – all  are tasked with the obligation to "live out loud" and share their worlds, their talents, and their words.

 

The late writer Janet Frame, who was born in New Zealand on this date in 1924, once noted, “Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land.  It is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”      

                   And Zola,           who wrote countless essays and dozens of books said each artist, musician or writer is born with a dual role.  “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work . . . There are two men inside the artist.  The poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”

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