Hoffer wrote: “There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul, than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much dissatisfied as the revolutionary. Yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a big picture view of the overall issue of success versus failure, how it might be measured, and what causes either outcome. When one is in the grip of fear, it is disempowering when one is being subjugated by someone with greater power over them and they feel constrained and helpless to respond and break free. This can lead to despair and a kind of surrender into hopelessness that will be a permanent state of affairs. The purpose of life, in the beginning, was to allow you great freedom—freedom of movement through free agency, being under your own control as a navigator of your life, to make whatever choices you wished, although having to deal with the consequences as feedback, and useful feedback, to learn and grow as a consequence from mistakes as well as successes. That is a good system; the overcoming of challenges is tremendously satisfying to the spirit; it is what you are made to do, it is the makeup of your soul itself, to be a seeker of greater potential, a wider array of possibilities, an endless quest for growth, learning, and creative exploration to bring all of that about. It is when those wonderful impulses are thwarted that people have trouble coping with difficulty and challenge as a springboard for greatness. You are learning how to do things the hard way in being incarnated on the Earth, particularly at this point in time when the darkening is growing worse. The challenge is enormous but not beyond your reach to overcome—that will bring tremendous rewards if you are successful. What you are distilling into the choices within your question, contrasting the artist with the revolutionary, is spot on with respect to what the potential outcomes will be for their respective futures if they are successful in achieving their goals. The artist is conducting divine business. Art is a creative endeavor because it is an aspect of the divine which is creative at its very core. The purpose of creation itself is to expand creativity in joyous ways, and endlessly. Those who participate through the arts in whatever form are expressing their divinity at a high level. Regardless of their particular level of talent in doing that, they are nonetheless resonating with the love of Creator in wanting the world and the universe to be manifestly beautiful in all of its variations. Anyone who seeks to add to that and celebrate it is in divine alignment through the doing. The revolutionary is seeking to overturn present circumstances in a way they perceive as gaining them greater power. That is a slippery slope because the revolutionary is always seeking to take something from others to gain oneself. That can result in the righting of a very serious wrong, but it often leads to excess and is applied in ways that are inappropriate, targeting inaccurately many innocents, and often resulting in the exchange of one tyrant for another. Whether you have a king or tyrannical ruler who is simply a so‑called strong man with a group of followers who control the guns and military power and make everyone else subservient, or you have a revolutionary overthrow through a war of propaganda to influence the minds of the young to embrace a socialist perspective, glorifying the state through the power of the collective to bring equity and fairness to all, you will live to see that everyone has surrendered their own personal power to a faceless authoritarian monster too big to kill or overthrow because, like a cancer, it has consumed everything. The fault here exhibited by the revolutionary is in thinking that power is its own reward and not appreciating power comes not only with heavy responsibilities but with great risk to the integrity of the soul, because it is so easily misapplied and usurped by others. It attracts the selfish who have an endless hunger within themselves for greater attainment and will be quite happy to take away what you have gained, and ultimately this comes down to the old adage, "Those who live by the sword, shall die by the sword," a truism every bit as meaningful in today’s world as in the Biblical Era. Those who pursue power for its own sake are serving their own destruction and arranging it in all they do.