Today, my friend and I were in her mom's car talking about which job was harder: actor or artist. I said, "Art is easy. You just scribble on a piece of paper and call it abstract art." Her mom squinted at me in the rear-view mirror and my friend stopped talking. Then she said, "My mom is an artist." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finished a big art project. It was a self-portrait done in acrylics. Proud of my piece, I showed my mom. After some thought her first comment was, "well, I'm either going to insult your art or your face." FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I was interviewing a woman for a job. She told me that she may need days off because of her artistic son. I jokingly replied, "Does he color on the walls or something?" She then stared at me with a weird look on her face. Autistic, her son is autistic. FML
Today, I was partnered up with a girl in my art class, since the teacher had asked us to take turns drawing portraits of each other. I went first and felt pretty proud of how the drawing turned out. I showed it to her and she said "That's OK. I'm not good at drawing either." FML
Today, I found out that my mom paints, and that I was artistically represented in a painting, as Satan, in a painting made shortly after I told her that I was an atheist. FML
Today, I learned how artistically talented my daughter is. Unfortunately, her favorite medium to work in is poo. FML
Today, I was talking to an art critic at an exhibition. He told me that the artist had no talent and went on to tell me everything wrong with each painting. I'd painted them all. FML
Today, despite me being a master-level carpenter, and my art sells for thousands, I heard my mom telling her snobby friends how embarrassed she is of me because I’m “basically unemployed” and waste my time on “hobby crafts” like a teenage nerd instead of getting “a real job” and finding a wife. FML
Today, a friend asked me to come with her to the art building at school so I could pose in the stance of a figure she was drawing for her exam. I obliged and sat for the pose. When the art teacher walked by, she looked at me, then at the sketch, pointed to the legs, and said, "Make them fatter". FML
Today, I looked over my next homework assignment for art class. It was to draw a portrait of my best friend. I can't think of anyone besides my mother. FML
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1234jnimawe 0
well youre an idiot because art is much more complicated ... ... I can't draw for my life nor can I pass it off like I can ... meanwhile people will see a movie with jessica Simpson and call that "acting" ... it ain't hard
choochootrain 0
...honestly? Comparing actors and artists is like comparing apples and pears. Done well, each require talent and effort.
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Comments (185)
lmmmr 0
Realism may take time, but not creativity.
thaispice 0
So what? That is neither a FYL nor a YDI...big deal.
kira1kira 0
I rarely say this but YDI I'm an amature artist too, my paintings take hours, I also make power point cartoons
Jimboom 12
Should have just said "Both are piss easy if your talented in those areas and both are hard as hell if your not." Though saying that I must be really uncultured because I have seen some real shyte get sold for a small fortune.
katelynmarie 0
Art requires skill.
tenthmuse 0
You really can't compare the two, they're totally different things and they're both difficult to do correctly. Try going to art school and then we'll see who's calling art easy. It's one of the hardest majors a person can study.
jeanniner 0
why thank you. It's true. Last year was my first year of art school... I had 28 hours of classes per week, and no doubt 50+ hours of homework each week. No matter what anyone thinks, art is HARD work. Scribbling on a piece of paper does NOT give it justice.
lmmmr 0
And most expensive.
kscott88 0
Psh, you were right, though. I mean, just about abstract art. Art is actually pretty tight, but freaking abstract art is the dumbest shit EVER.
jeanniner 0
wow you're an ass. I hate people like you that are so close-minded.
shotlilaussie 0
Acting is an art
Monado 0
I actually have to agree with you. Even though Art will be a career of which you love instead of getting a job you hate, art shouldn't be a career. Why? It's because once something becomes a job you are automatically dropped deadlines, what you need to paint specifically, and just what way they want you to paint it. If art is a hobby you can live freely and enjoy art itself. You can still sell your work, but keeping it as a career tends to not do well. Then again, you have to come up with the fact on people who are artists. Artists have abilities that are magnificent comapred to an average human. If someone has a talent to offer this world, they should follow through. Because when you do have a talent, you make money. Acting, music, cooking, and yes art. People who are supposidly making crap in your eyes is beauty in anothers. It's really all about prespective and how you follow through on it. Like an artist actually bought two blocks of wood, painted one white and one red, and sold thousands for it. Those pecies of wood are now in a musuem. We may fine that as a "What is that guy even thinking" but someone see beauty in it while we see crap. I actually think that if an artist realizes how people view things and willing to offer something, they're genious. Limiting their work to be so simple and yet being able to sell thouands is genious itself.
HeyThereGorgeous 0
#16 .... a year?! Hahahahhaahahhahhahahah! To write a book could take SIX years!! I'm still working on mine and it's been six years and I'm not even anywhere NEAR being halfway.