Nobody hates me for saying it, but a creator in any of the fields of ART is not legitimized by the tributes of a council or congress of the nation, province, municipality, commune or neighborhood that almost always are armed in the official bureaucracy to launder him the face to the civil servants and not because they really appreciate the challenge against all the obstacles that has to face the creative commitment without concessions.
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The music artist is not legitimized by winning a contest and appearing on the biggest stage and being seen on television and commented on by newspapers and magazines and radio stations in the cultural market.
The creator is not recognized by a diploma, a laurel wreath given by the jury of a contest, a little place on the altars of the cultural tourism trade.
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No one is qualified as a poet, no one can put a bronze plaque on his desk so that no one doubts the seriousness of his profession.
The struggle is day by day, against oneself, alone with his musical instrument until the song is made note by note and verse by verse, the challenge of the draftsman, painter, sculptor, artistic photographer, filmmaker, actor, stage director, dancer, puppeteer, storyteller, narrator, etc.
The adventure chooses you, not you, nobody knows where. It is not a trade of certainties, a safe, profitable profession.
Commitment does not have railings or handrails to hold on to, you walk without a crutch, without a cane, without an artist's uniform with medals and a license so that everyone can see that one is that.
That is throwing yourself into the void every day, without a net, without firefighters to cut you down, without a chapel to beatify you, without a Pope to sanctify you for eternal glory.
We are not cult objects.

A prologue from a competent authority does not legitimize you, a critic who comments to you, a teacher who teaches your work to his students.
The freedom to create is priceless, but you have to live in the most extreme solitude, keeping your distance from all temptations, so that they don't bribe you, so that they don't buy you, so that they don't take you by the nose to some chapel where they consecrate the farce.
We cannot buy the judgment of the reader, of the reader, of the one who listens to you read in a presentation.
You cannot sell or buy that thing that resists all classification, all definition, all regulatory framework and validity test.

You have to put up with that loneliness, that freedom, that lifelong struggle against the blank page, the empty stage, the canvas without a trace of drawing or painting, that film whose script is being made without a recipe, without a winning formula, without applause from the audience
It is the work that legitimizes the author and not the interests of the cultural industry with its private foundations and scholarships and fairs and sponsors...