There is much to be gained from reading this article. I cannot encourage you enough to do so. But don’t mistake me for saying that I’m satisfied with what I read. It took me days to get through the article and I left many questions unanswered.

But before that, I want to tell you what the artists’ responses have told me about how they perceive art in general and what they take away from it.

What matters in the artwork?

Art is not going to change the world, in my opinion. What it will change, however, is people’s perception of the world. Art can leave us with a valuable message, a simple message, or an extravagant message. But to say that art has to do either one is to imply that art has to have one meaning, or that art cannot do something completely different.

We could say that art has to do either what art is, or what art is not. Art is what