Try it Thrice

Allows us to feel like we're not alone.

But it's a lie. We're lying to ourselves.

Testing out a thought. Gotta out it out there and see how I feel about it, like paint chips on your walls before you paint.

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Art, whether creating or observing, is a self-centered experience.

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I create from internal impetus, using knowledge and inspiration collected from the world and others. I take art in independent of the artist's full intent, I don't get anything beyond what they've chosen to display explicitly, and I can't possibly ever understand it all as they saw it or dreamt it up. I can only see it through my own lenses, as if for this one second the world is about me and mine is the only experience that matters. Even if art is about someone else's experience, viewing it and experiencing it makes it about mine.

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