Amy McNee

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TED Talks Daily · The case for making art when the world is on fire | Amie McNee · 12 Jun 2025 podcast
What do you want to leave this world with?
Artists dare to imagine a different world.
Creatives never leave the world the way they found it.
You know, we can depart this place having spent 10 years straight or more on our phones and having just left the world with a memory of horror and fear and being very depressed about what's going on, or we could leave this world with a little bit of you in art form.
Whether that is recipes that you pass down to your kids, whether that's my dad writes me poetry,
That's his legacy.
I'm not asking you to become a world famous artist, though I will absolutely back you if that's what you choose to do.
But I am asking you to start making stuff, start taking up space.
Leave a legacy, leave this world with something beautiful.
We're human beings, we are just born to create things.
What is your legacy going to be, artist?
Your art is the antidote to so many people's pain, yet you are keeping it to yourself.
I think we've been taught that creativity is a selfish endeavor, that when we go and play the piano or we go and do our YouTube creation, that this is something just for you, that it's selfish.
The act of making art is inherently generous.
Your art is the antidote to so many people's pain, yet you keep it to yourself.
If my dad hadn't written me these beautiful, beautiful forms of poetry, do you know how much they healed in me and the vulnerability it took my father to give them to me?
It is beautiful.
The way you're hoarding your creations is selfish.
Art isn't to be sidelined.
You are inherently creative with something very beautiful to give this world.
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