That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You are just drawn to things, and that's OK.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.