Lets not just make art, lets become art!

Anybody else notice how the music has become adulterated. There are so many horrible musicians today who dont produce anything of real substance. The substance I speak of is soul. You dont need to be black to "have soul" or be "soulful", even though the term has long been reserved for the African American style of singing. Having soul is the quality of singing or playing from the heart or well... from the soul. When artists are motivated by greed their music is bland and lacks that true substance that finds itself touching our very being. Some greedy artists make great music, dont get me wrong. But I'm willing to bet that when they are actually creating music, they do so out of a genuine love for music and the creative process. There is something spiritual and even healing about playing music this way. My mom used to say that she worships God through creating art. This makes lots of sense to me, because a true artist lets a higher part of themselves do the creating. The mind or ego is only involved as a tool for the soul, which is the true self.
I think that art is powerful because of this. It transcends our false selves that we have learned to associate with through experience and social indoctrination. It reveals the ego for what it is, a tool.
Michelangelo is known to have said that "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection"
The true work of Art is perfection in a way. The process is characterized by a dissociation with one's ego and a oneness with the true self. This is why we become so absorbed when performing from the soul. It almost feels like it is not coming from us. But what if... What if just as we were all caught up in the fallacy of a flat earth in the past, today we are lost in mistaking our ego for our true self. What if we are lost to the extent that only from time to time does our real self surface from within to do something unexpected and often extraordinary. Inspiration and Innovation come from that place we call "the true self". Imagine a life uncontrolled by any exterior forces but this self. This self which is still connected to the divine, and in fact is divine itself. We would be true art ourselves. You would be a living work of art!
The more one gets to know one's true self the more they seem to be different. They emanate something powerful from their personality, something attractive that you just cant put your finger on. We all hate the thought of being controlled by others yet when we are controlled by our ego that is exactly what is occurring. After all, the ego is but a combination of memes (any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation) that come from without. If we lived the same way that we create true art, putting our souls (our heart) in everything we do to make it come out beautiful, we would truly be ourselves. We would use our experience to guide our life, instead of have our experience, along with fear and pride control our life.

No longer content with making art, let us become Art ourselves!