Creating art is also a process allowing you to improve your skills and techniques

Some artists spend a life time creating art containing the same subject matter.
I believe this to be not perseveration or an obsessive behavior but a valid study of the different approach an artist brings to his or her work.
Unlike the poet who is unwilling, to edit a poem in fear that he or she will bring a different point of view or set of emotions to the work. An artist depends on this difference to grow improving his or her skills and techniques.

Georgia O’Keef said of painting flowers “Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time”.
” I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it”.