Art is not self-expression.

It is the self expressing all of the elements of the culture that has shaped it. We fliter the ambient information that surrouds us--from our families,from our communities,from the information that bombards us every day from myriad sources. We do not create this infomation;it help to create us. We in turn start to interoret it and describe it to ourselves and to others as a means to understand it. This is the art impulse. Even works of pure imagination have sources outside of ourselves. Know your sources.

艺术创造不是自我表达。准确地追溯，它是我们在生活中受到所有已知的未知的影响后，将这些影响自我消化，再向他人表达的一种形式。我们没有创造这些影响，而是这些内容在帮助塑造我们。这就是艺术驱动力。即使是最纯粹的想象也有来自其外界的源泉。了解你的灵感源泉。