What Artists Talk About When They Talk About Their Art

And why it’s hard to say anything truly meaningful

Photo by Yannis Papanastasopoulos on Unsplash

When I was at art college — many years ago now — I learnt two things very quickly.

The first was that, if you’re going to make it as a practicing artist, you must not only be passionate, but also sociable, canny, eclectic, pompous (but not too much), fierce…