Anais Nin will sometimes contrast the artists with what she calls the oatmeal people. A letter from a friend says, "Your life was formed in the artist's world. In your childhood and throughout your life, you have been forced to reject the ordinary, the subordinary, the "oatmeal" people as you call them."
Artist: bohemian, full of curiosity, notices everything, needs to create, has imagination, needs beauty, likes to dream, lives intensely, full of energy, interesting, charming, adventurous, colorful, rich in experience, unconventional, hungry for life, free.
Oatmeal Person: boring, plain, empty, ordinary, conventional, one-dimensional, voiceless, spectator, invisible; basically, everything opposite of the artist.
Which are you - artist or oatmeal or a little of both?
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