Make Art Like Nobody's Watching / Create As If It Matters

'‘I like to write when I’m feeling spiteful,’ remarked D.H. Lawrence. ‘It’s like having a good sneeze.’ A perennial challenge for a Fleet Street columnist is how to walk the fine line between writing as though your opinion mattered, and writing as though it were just an entertaining sneeze.'

                                                                             - Matthew Parris, The Spectator

Indeed. The same could be said of bloggers. Or even artists. We write/create as if it matters, knowing full well that it's more like a 'sneeze', although not in the sense DH Lawrence meant, perhaps. I neither write nor make art spitefully. Yet as Parris says, we have to act as if it matters, even if only to ourselves.