Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.
Art should create an experience.
Abstraction is an esoteric language.
There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.