Artists struggle to truly reach audience

Being an artist isn't easy.

It requires inspiration, a message and a talent.

It involves taking something that has meaning to one person, and trying to make that same message applicable to a widespread audience.

And then having to respond to critiques from those that couldn't truly understand this form of personal expression.

Poet, Shane Koyczan exemplifies the difficulty artists face in trying to be perfect for their audiences, through his poem, "Beethoven."

This single piece of art demonstrates the struggle one of the world's most popular and prominent composers faced when creating music that had both meaning to the artist, and the audience.

It is through this struggle of self-sacrifice and self-destruction that artists attempt to reach both goals.