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I view this "art as a communion with God" as the artist tapping into wider humanity. An artist cannot be completely self-indulgent and separated in his or her creation. Art cannot be created in a vacuum; "no man is an island."
This is why I think the artist must let go of their creation once it's in the public eye. At that point, it's no longer theirs. In a way, it never was.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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