When someone says “I believe with all my heart” it always seemed odd to me. As if that belief added credibility to the statement. People believe all kinds of crazy things, and just because you believe doesn’t make it true one bit. Take the statement “I don’t believe in gravity” for example. Your belief changes nothing, you will still fall to earth if you jump off a building. So it seems like a fools errand to try and fortify belief.

Why not instead try and find reality. Why not seek truth above all else. Certainly the world is much more gray than it first appears, but learning what is real seems the first step to approaching it all. Maybe the statement “from where I am now, it appears this ______ is true” as it acknowledges the journey. I think this is what art really is. A way for the artist to discover or at least process life and truth in a way that they alone can understand, because can anyone understand an artist work better than the artist themselves?