You can express yourself musically by banging a guitar
against a rock if you prefer, if that’s the best way to use it to express
yourself. It’s so narrow to talk about creatively expressing yourself
“musically” or through “dance” or “art” or “poetry” or whatever. As soon as you
do that, you start to judge the end product according to how good an example it
is of “a song”, “a painting”, “a poem” or whatever instead of how good it is at
creatively expressing the artist.
If you want to express yourself photographically, you can
take a selfie on your phone, print it at Boots and edit it with Magic Markers
if the end result expresses how you feel. Someone else might see it and get it
because they feel the same way. Or maybe they won’t. It doesn't really matter. Whether or not it’s Art is
debatable but it’s undeniably creative self-expression. Banging a guitar
against rock or taking selfies on a phone is creativity happening and anyone
can do it. Pushing “Art” out of the equation and just expressing yourself
however you feel like doing it democratises creativity. It’s not restricted to
an elite group of people called Artists. Anyone can do it.
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