The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.