Artistic Intentions

to most part, there has always been a very basic idea behind all my artistic efforts and activities.
an idea i for a long time now believe to be true (with some periods of doubts now and then), and that many people i met in my life told me would be useless, impossible or even dangerous.
that idea is: you can do what you want.
let me explain how this could relate to art.
when creating art or music, one often has very clear concepts inside one's mind of what one does want to achieve.
yet when presenting the art to other people, there is a very common reaction: "yes, this is already very nice, but if you would change this or that, you could be really succesful with your art". now it's of course nice if art still can be improved. but usually, this advice runs against the concepts that one has set oneself.
the idea here is: you can't follow your own concepts, you have to adapt to those that are already around.
but this is wrong. you can follow your own ideas.
now we live in a world, where in music, for example, there are almost hundreds of different scenes, subcultures, with even further subgenres and so on. when one does art, people always give one the good advice that one should soften up one's standarts a bit and try to appeal to one of these categories. they say that if one does not do that - basically, at least to conform in some way - one will not get any recognition for one's art, one will not get many supporters. but, as i said, this is completely wrong. the point is:
to not cater to *any* scene or subculture, as niche as it might be. to completely do only the art that one does want to do.
(of course there are also artists who are dedicated to one scene, and create art that fits to that scene, and this is okay too. but this was not the way i wanted to go.).

it is possible to gain recognition and reach a larger audience, even if you only do not more and not less than exactly what you want to, in music and art.

as i said, i believed this idea to be true; and through my activities i found proof that it is true.

of course, the added point here is that this is not only true for art, but also for the rest of society, and the rest of the world.

it is possible. you can do what you want and be succesful with that.