It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Art is all a matter of personality.
I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
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