Being
an artist, creating art becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate
precisely the stuff you don’t want to see or let anyone else see. This stuff usually turns out to be precisely
the stuff all artists everywhere share and respond to, feel. Art becomes a
weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way
to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be
maximally likable. This process is complicated, confusing and scary, and also
hard work, but it turns out to be the best fun there is. ART is our common
language. It is the glue that holds our
civilization together, keeps us all sane.
