What is good Art?

A deceptively simple question. A question I've been wrestling with some time myself. Everyone has their 2 cents on it. Is it the amount of money they spent on it? Is it the amount of hours they spent on it? Is it what they spent on it? I think it's a very ambiguous question that has many answers. You can spend a lot of money and it could not be "good" . You can spend a tremendous amount of energy on it and it can still fail. I don't know...yet. 

I met with an art gallery owner yesterday and she gave me a small insight into the answer to that question. She told me art is about how well you execute your idea. How well you take it from that journey from thought to form. Do you stay pure to the original idea? Or do I let it free and evolve and let it morph with the world. My current understanding is that it should be a balance of both. I should let my idea be free and to take its own course, but it should never lose the core aspect of the initial idea. What I mean by that is the "Heart" of the idea should stay intact. I say this from my personal experience with creative projects. Everyone will have something to say about it, what feedback do I listen to? What do I not? It's a very fine line which I am slowly zeroing in on. What I've learned though is that I should never let the voices of others drown out my own. As well as taking their voice into consideration. 

Don't stop creating

I had a realization today about how important art was to me and the power it has had on me to grow as a person. I realized that I had the notion that I have to have all these materials in order to create art but in reality, I can make it with everything that I have now. And I thought that my art had to be a certain way and that It had to be on a canvas everytime I made it. But In reality, all I need was a sketchbook and a pen. I love being able to just flow onto a page and reflect my innermost thoughts. It's very liberating to be able to just do something with nothing else matters at that very point in time. I feel almost like I was meant to do that exact thing at that very moment. I feel that when I do create that art in whatever form it is I'm able to connect to something that bigger than myself. ( Speaking of flow states I need to reread Stealing Fire) . I also realized today that I shouldn't let just anyone's opinion affect my art. I feel like If I do that I end up being taken away from my own art and I end up just being a servant for other people instead of actually creating art from within me. I feel like there is this unlimited well of creative energy inside of me that just requires constant effort & discipline to figure out. Anyways that my reflection today and my construction of my philosophy around my art. 

Stay Humble, Stay Blessed