Bill Murray said once that art saved him from suicide. Has art had that effect on you?

[Weebster]

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[juraviel]

i think making art, not just viewing it

it all depends on your personality. certainly you have to feel inspired to do it, i imagine..

 

[Feeding Pigeons]

i think making art, not just viewing it

it all depends on your personality. certainly you have to feel inspired to do it, i imagine..

I'd say both. I can definitely say the art others have created has extended my life.

 

[Weebster]

I'd say both. I can definitely say the art others have created has extended my life.

Like anime. The Japanese stole it from God and gave it to humans to enjoy

 

[Leiden]

I wish little things like that could help me again. I don't know how it ever could help someone suicidal. I think it could help someone with just some depression, but as for being suicidal, that seems very unlikely and for someone to not be that far gone with just the occasional suicidal thoughts.

Edit- I also think it depends on what your suicidal for.

 

[Weebster]

I wish little things like that could help me again. I don't know how it ever could help someone suicidal. I think it could help someone with just some depression, but as for being suicidal, that seems very unlikely and for someone to not be that far gone with just the occasional suicidal thoughts.

It was also a major theme in the Ryan Gosling film "Stay." The movie is about getting him not to ctb. Art failed

 

[SuicideBoys93]

Im a trader, and dabble in trading NFTs. I've linked with many other collectors through discord. I've built some solid relationships in the nft world. In a sense, yeah, you could say art has saved my life.

 

[Weebster]

i think making art, not just viewing it

it all depends on your personality. certainly you have to feel inspired to do it, i imagine..

Making art is unfortunately expensive and messy enough to require an art studio room. Pencil and paper alone isn't good enough for me.

Im a trader, and dabble in trading NFTs. I've linked with many other collectors through discord. I've built some solid relationships in the nft world. In a sense, yeah, you could say art has saved my life.

NFTs are postmodern. Not up to par with the good stuff

 

[SuicideBoys93]

Making art is unfortunately expensive and messy enough to require an art studio room. Pencil and paper alone isn't good enough.

NFTs are postmodern. Not up to par with the good stuff

I'd highly disagree with you on that take. A lot of high quality artists entering the web 3 realm.

 

[Weebster]

I'd highly disagree with you on that take. A lot of high quality artists entering the web 3 realm.

Ok. I'll have to take a look

 

[SuicideBoys93]

Ok. I'll have to take a look

Actually one of my most recent projects I've invested into. The art below is samples or sneak peeks. There's a lot of phenomenal artists getting their talents showcased because of NFTs.
Noticed your anime pfp. A lot of quality anime projects starting to really surge within the space.

 

[sealbabies]

For me, nope. Maybe once upon a time though...

 

[Chiisai]

It once did. Now, cant feel anything.

Actually one of my most recent projects I've invested into. The art below is samples or sneak peeks. There's a lot of phenomenal artists getting their talents showcased because of NFTs.
Noticed your anime pfp. A lot of quality anime projects starting to really surge within the space.

These are yours? Awesome! Keep it up!

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

What stops me from CTB is having the ability to take long peaceful walks.

If I lose that , I lose everything.

Long peaceful walks are impossible in US metro areas. There is always some punk that will hassle you in random locations. In civilized countries in Asia and parts of Europe you can walk even in the dead of night with no hassle.

Art is ok but it's not really what can stop me from CTB. Unless you consider observing naked women as art

 

[romanholidaydionysu]

I can't say art outside of music had an effect like that on me. However, art is mostly just a mirror for us to springboard into ourselves and pull out something from fortune cookie level useless thoughts to epiphanies

 

[enau]

not anymore.. actualy im desesperate and rotting internaly, and the only thing im able to exprress in art is.. that im desesperate and rotting internaly ?Im mean, at the beginning , it helped me to express my dark thoughts in art, it was obviously cathartic,and also you create something, you can valorise yourself, and you can create connection with others upon this base... in a certain way, art is not only make pretty things, it is an echo chambers of thoughts , feelings, introspection, i think express pain and darkness in art, can be stunning, and more, it can help, because it is a intimate road for evolution; a road of you questions through a difficult/painful path, but its not for nothing, you evolve, .. but at a certain point, i saw myself.. not evolving at all, make dark things because i needed art to keep a tiny meaningful actituvy in my existence, but it give me more pain, and fueled it ..? at this point i realized that , in my case, i will not evolve anymore in this road of pain, and it lost its part of light ?But it helped me before, i think , there is other parameter to take in account, i was so much into art, like a religion maybe imao, that it became disguting all this suffering that art had the mission to transform , when i was still sad, more and more...But i still can sometimes enjoy listening or viewing art, now, but everything seems to have lost their bright now.. and the rare time i make art, i m repulsed by ( im no pro, by the way, but i had the ambition, and if were able to meet the good personns-places at the right moment, it could have bring me in other place, than where im stuck now), it is void, it reflect me a cruel world, it reflct my own shards botrlen mirrors , and i hate it.How can you said fuck to life, and express your pain or revolt more than make it a ruin.. and im not able to make anything else of me or dealing with life in positive" way.. "

( writing , like i was encouraged , in my own native langage i mean, never helped me , and was destructive, i think about illustration vuquals art and music for the benefits of art in my life)

 

[sharky]

Yes. I make music and it saved me many times but at the moment my depression is too severe to even do that. But knowing that if I was able to, I could at any moment make music again.

 

[Grav]

Not artistic (outside of some painting hobbies) so no, it doesn't do anything for me. Music can lift my mood for a while so "enjoying art" has a limited benefit.

 

[Weebster]

Not artistic (outside of some painting hobbies) so no, it doesn't do anything for me. Music can lift my mood for a while so "enjoying art" has a limited benefit.

I've often wondered what I'm supposed to see when I look at "Starry Night." It's beautiful but I can visually scan the image in its entirety in a matter of moments. Do I then imagine what the artist's message is? How do I do that?

 

[Grav]

Do I then imagine what the artist's message is? How do I do that?

I'm in the same boat with anything but music and even then it's not a technical view, just casual listener. I never get into art museums because I can get through it quick and "miss the meaning" as people more artsy than me say.

 

[Weebster]

I'm in the same boat with anything but music and even then it's not a technical view, just casual listener. I never get into art museums because I can get through it quick and "miss the meaning" as people more artsy than me say.

Lol I can relate. I used to try and linger at a painting like other people, but I didn't see the point. The Mona Lisa is average to me.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, nothing could ever save me or make me want to live. I feel like no matter what I do, it will not make me feel better. I live an empty existence where I am only able to find comfort in the thought of my life ending.