Artist chatter

I love Artist A Day, a website that features one artist once a day everyday. Similar to Every Day Fiction that has one flash fiction everyday, I have them sending me email everyday to my inbox. It's refreshing to see art work from different people from different places using different media, but it's funny and sometimes torturous to read the things that they write about themselves. So I prefer just looking at the art.

The accompanying text just makes me confused.

For example:
Scale and palette vary tremendously, from small, intimate, and subtle, to large, grand, and dramatic. In all he strives to capture a meditative spirit that is unique to his approach*

Now that one was a bit verbose. But once in a while, you'll get something like this:

The literal destruction of an object is secondary to the overall effect created by color (dis)harmony and the overall aesthetic of the reclaimed and reinvented object/experience. I openly play with the allure of foreign and aggressive new colors and forms into otherwise familiar and traditional settings. Barriers and obstacles are thereby created between the viewer and the object through which one must negotiate an understanding of what is both present and hidden...*

*all text from the website

I always thought it is better for the art to speak for itself. I am not saying all the artists. I mean, It's not to say I don't like their work. I enjoy being exposed to different forms of art, but sometimes I prefer to leave to the viewer to get his own ideas. A description is nice as sort of a guide, but too much makes me feel like an idiot understanding where the heck I could see what they were talking about.

I think that is the problem with being an artist -- or anybody, for that matter. Sometimes it is a requirement for people to talk about something you did, or be good with people. I am not really quite good at it. I can be when I really put my mind into it, but it's a bit of an effort.