I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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 never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.