To be an artist is to be free.
You can do, say, and create whatever you want. You can go wherever your spirit takes you—because you are unbound by societal norms, trends, and cultural constraints. Art is pure freedom. It is detachment in its most profound form—one that allows for maximal human flourishing and radical self-expression.
The artist needs nothing from anyone. You are the creator. You possess the power to shape the world as you please. You do not chase meaning. You create it.
You live as Aristotle described in Politics—not as a mere man among the masses, but as something more:
“Man is by nature a political animal; and he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state is either a bad man or above humanity… he is either a beast or a god.”
Be that god.
Become the Übermensch in the flesh.