For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.