Observation

To create a work of beauty is beautiful. To have it perceived as beautiful more so.

Observation

Rejection can be positive. Praise is more flattering.

Observation

An artwork may be the product of one or many hands. It is consumed one viewer at a time, whether the audience is one or many.

Observation

Reliance on explanatory text is a mistake. Such text often is confusing and confused.

Observation

Every opinion matters. A few opinions matter more.  Fewer opinions are considered.

Observation

Symbols.  A fish can be a fish, and bait.

Observation

Political and social issues seem like good content for artwork.  Better still, politics and society in a vacuum.  It is correct to contain agendas beneath the surface, and also appropriate to avoid murkiness.  Depth can appear murky.

Observation

It is important to tie a large number of images together, but also, to illustrate the connections with only select images.  Critics, for example, often illustrate.

Observation

In the beginning, intentions are directions and predictions.  In the end, they are explanations and rationalizations.  To create, it is appropriate for artists to consider their intentions.  Intention is part of the creative process.  So is accident.  Artists sometimes claim an accident was intentional.  This is misdirection.

Observations

Many artists fail in expressing their concepts.  What they make remains present, unless destroyed.

Artists do best with simple concepts; complication leads to ambiguity.  Artists will claim the ambiguity is intentional.  This is unhelpful.