The Arts are not a business. Entertainment is a business.
The Arts survive by way of patronage. This is a completely different commitment to the creation of artifacts and aesthetic.
I am not here to entertain.
I am here to offer clear, honest, and genuine artistic communication in order to enter into an aesthetic relationship with a community so as to be challenged, to celebrate, and respectfully respond to life.
Art is communicated and understood through a particular discipline of precepts and limitations specific to the practices of a creative form.
Art is communicated, and understood by way of its own literary intelligence; imbued with the potentiality to transcend knowledge and experience.