At the core of every artistic act, artists are saying: “The world would be better if it were this way”

If we are making any kind of art at all - if we are making a handprint turkey or a 30 x 40 inch painting of a river, at the core of this act, we are saying “the world would be better if it were this way”

I think this is why some people are a bit scared of making art. Because, if we make something and it sucks, then we’ve made the world a worse place. This is scary as hell.

Art is about having confidence, it’s about saying “This situation will be better when I take the paint out of these tubes and apply it to a canvas.”

The most incredible thing of all about art is that any of us, right now, could go to Michaels and spend $5 on a canvas and $20 on paint and we could make the best art that has ever been made. Maybe we don’t even have to go to Michaels. Maybe we could gather small stones on the ground, or make footsteps in the snow, and we could make the best art that anyone has seen all year.

All art is a an act of pushing the world to a better iteration of itself. The possibility of art is endless.