I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
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.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.