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Sep 12, 2009
"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?" --Pablo Picasso
Why We Make Art
Why do you make art? That's the simple question Greater Good posed to seven artists. Their answers are surprising, and very diverse. They mention making art for fun and adventure; building bridges between themselves and the rest of humanity; reuniting and recording fragments of thought, feeling, and memory; and saying things that they can't express in any other way.
BE THE CHANGE
Ask an artist you know why they make art.
