"Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody."
Piet Mondrian

This quote struck me. Art is so personal, so individual, and yet so universal. It is a strange tension, but I find it to be completely and utterly true. When I try to paint, worrying too much about what others will think or what others will want, I rarely create something good. I have to put myself in the the painting, and then be concerned with others. It is in the creation of art, that art is essentially individual. It is in the viewing and appreciation of art that it becomes more universal.