In Paolo Sorrentino’s This must be the place, when Cheyenne (played by Shean Penn) is talking with a man in a bar somewhere in New Mexico, the man tells him he makes tattoos for a living, to which he ads that he doesn’t view it as work but really as art. Cheyenne replies with a question: that if he had noticed that nobody works anymore, nowadays everybody’s an artist.

Some do see more than others, even though looking in the same direction but it’s not so much being an artist — everyone is an artist, not by choice, but by nature. Ideally a person becomes a carpenter by profession because he or she likes the specific causality that belongs to carpentry. So does the accountant, and the banker …

But what if the artist in us all is only the feature, that allows us to see a table when others see a tree, see profit when others see a collection of numbers. Because it’s not the why that is important, it’s within what field and with what particular act, that is. You have artists in banking and marketing, because it’s not important what you create, it is the act of creation and the joy and pleasure that it brings. Maybe it’s better not to worry so much about why and rather just figure out for ourselves our how.