Competition

Artists don't compete with each other because they arrive at their decision of what they do and why they do it from every possible option, from an infinity of free choices. As such, each artist knows exactly why he or she is doing it and is unswayed by others. Artists, instead, compete with everyone; every person who mocks "I can do that!" - the artist proves what he or she can do by doing it, or at least by trying, pushing, striving. Artist is the ultimate job, the paragon of lives. Philosophers think, politicians argue, artists do, and give everything in the doing.