EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST

(EVEN IF THEY DON'T KNOW IT AND EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT TO BE)

Everyone is an artist and is so at all times and in all circumstances, since the viewer is also an artist even when what they observe has nothing to do with art.

Many will remain reluctant to change the conventions used to classify art and the categories associated with it, because many will not want to be considered artists due to the laziness of having to assume their commitment as agents who produce and translate forms.

Most prefer not to contemplate the universality of the condition of being an artist because it would make them uneasy, and also because it offers them greater comfort to think that being an artist consists of undertaking an exclusive and excluding task.

These are the same people who, in the end, participate in that generalised belief that consists of separating those creations made by any human being from those made by a human artist. They continue to think that, among people alive, dead and yet to be born, there are some who are artists and the rest are not and will not be.

But the worst thing is that being reluctant to consider oneself an artist consists, ultimately, in a sedate and voluntary ignorance that serves to avoid the uncertainty of knowing oneself as an artist.