are artists all generally sickly and physically inactive? I was just wondering, I had wanted to be an artist my whole life and have mostly focused on those aspirations, but I noticed a lot of people who are artists, they just sit around and like maybe drink coffee and smoke cigarettes, it seems like a lot of artists aren't physically active, and I feel weird and strange because it's hard for me not to leave the house at all and do something physically active. Why are artists generally very skinny, and physically inactive?

artists usually arent athletic, but a good artist is usually outgoing

what do you mean outgoing? it takes kind of an introverted personality to spend all your time (usually alone) focusing on artistic pursuits. 



Do you think that's usually what it is, they seriously just have no athletic inclinations?

you don't become a good artist unless you build up your visual library, and you do that through observation of real things. you can study with references, but you can also study by just going outside and looking at things

The outside world to artists are like guns to people.



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>>17495685 (OP)

I tell myself I’m an artist

I am physically active as i need a break from all the art I create

You can choose 2 but not all.



Smart

Creative

Athletic



Most artists prioritize being creative and smart above being athletic because it does nothing for them. You need to research a lot to become a true artist. Study the greats, their work, their technique and what motivated them.

When you take the creative or intellectual rope you realize that athleticism is mostly a waste. Being yoked doesn’t make your art better or your research any more valid.

Obsessing over athleticism is like a form of delusion.

>I don’t need to be smart or creative because I’m jacked and can just beat you up….what the hell is due process, checks and balances????

Being athletic only gets you so much in the modern day and the amount of time and energy you have to put into it doesn’t justify itself. You get to look the way you do or be active but that’s it. You’re a knuckle dragging Neanderthal and the world prioritizes and values almost anything other than physical prowess.

Those days are long gone.

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indeed

It's not really that I have a deep interest in athletic pursuits I just feel bad if I don't use my body enough, but this just makes me feel weird because again I hardly know many artists who like are physically active at all or who live balanced or normal lives and it makes me feel super weird.

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speak to your body, not theirs. everybody is unique, as is the art they create, so go do stuff outside of art.
