Buying Art vs Making Art

I guess appreciating, buying and consuming art is a good starting point before you decide to get your hands dirty and plunge into the deep end of making art. It helps struggling fellow artists make a living, too.

But speaking from personal experience, making art is always the more enriching and fulfilling experience, even if the end result may not be of masterpiece standard.

Practice makes perfect, and it's good for the soul - or helps you find it.

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"Our general perception of art as acquiring an object - buying a painting, owning a piano, affording a theatre ticket etc. - really has nothing to do with art. They do not give you that intense, prolonged exercise where your senses, mind and body are subjected to a grueling experience of holistic gymnastics.

The process of art sensitizes one's whole being. Buying an art object produces but a consuming sensation.

Art is 'down-up' and ' inside-out'.

... the source energy of the arts has always come from the people. And always will."

~   Essays and Speeches by Kuo Pao Kun, Volume 7 (2008)