I THINK ISPIRATION IS THE BIGGEST FORM OF FLATTERING TO MAKE OF AN ARTIST, ITS THE MESSAGE THAT THE ARTIST WANTED TO GIVE BIRD OF AS A SPPEL PUTTED ON SOME KID’S HEART AND MAYBE MADE OF HIM THE ULTIMATE FORM OF HIS ART/MESSAGE, OR MAYBE HE SENT THE BASE SO THAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD FINISH IT, I BELIEVE ARTISTS ARE LIKE PROFETHS AND ALL THEY EXPECT IS THEIR PROFESIES TO BE TAKEN AND LIVED AND UNDERSTANDED BY THE WORLD, ART IS LARGE AS LIFE ITSELF, IT LIVES ON THE PEOPLE`S MEMORY OF EVERYONE WHO HAS SEEN IT OR LOVED IT AND LIVED IT (THE ARTIST PIECE OF ART)..
I THINK WE ALL ARE POSERS SINCE TRENDS ARE FOLLOWED. AND I ALSO THINK IF SOMETHING LOOKS GOOD IT SIMPLY DOES AND YOU SIMPLY LOVE IT AND YOU EMBRACE IT AS YOUR OWN.
AND SINCE ORIGINALITY IS ABOUT FORGETTING WHERE YOU HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE…
IGNORANCE ABOUT WHAT YOU FOLLOW IN ANY CASE IS BEING A “POSER”.
PSICOLOGY TELLS US THAT WE AS HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN WITH THE INSTINCT OF WANTING TO BE PART OF A GROUP, AND I REMEMBER I READ SOMETIME “WE AS HUMANS CAN LIVE WHITOUT A RELIGION BUT SURELY WE CAN’T WHITOUT AFECTION”. AT SOME POINT I WONDER AND I WOULD LOVE YOU TO ASK YOURSELF THIS: AM I DRESSING THE WAY I LOVE JUST BECAUSE I LOVE WHAT IT REPRESENTS AND I FELL IT TELLS WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY REGARDLESS OF WHAT PEOPLE THINK? AND DO I LOOK HOT? OR AM I DRESSING LIKE THIS SO I WON’T FELL LONELY? AND BECOME PART OF SOME GROUP? NOT JUDGING YOU BUT BE HONEST, WE ALL HAVE.
THE WORD “POSER” TO ME IS RELATIVE, ALMOST INEXISTENT, WE ALL START AS POSERS! AND WE ALL BECOME SOMETHING ELSE. IT’S BY COPING THAT YOU FIND YOUR TRUE SELF I THINK. SO IF SOMEONE CALLS YOU A POSER IT’S MUCH LIKELY THAT HE IS A POSER HIMSELF.
SO LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE YOUR FASHION (AS IT MEANS “WAY OF DOING IT”) AND EMBRACE YOURSELF AS YOU ARE AND HAVE FUN WITH IT. PERIOD.
"The Rosseaus, Marxes, Tolstois — men of thought, mind you, ‘impractical’ men, ‘idealist’ have done more to decide the food you eat and the things you think + do than all the millions of Roosevelts and Rockerfellars."
