Art and the Artist responses to responses-Sloan Warner

After reading a couple responses, Emmet's response was one that stuck out to me the most. His analysis of the quote, “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” by Amy Lowell was incredibly interesting and thought provoking to me. In the end, art in its most raw and natural form is the exact emotions the artist is feeling at the time of creating it. Everyone else's perception is usually a spin off, large or small, of the true emotions the artist was feeling based on the environment surrounding the audience. The perception of art is just like a piece of slightly hardened clay that you can change slightly without changing the integrity of the art piece as a whole. Art is a method to convey an artist's feeling, happy or sad, and it has been that way since the beginning of art.
Moreover, I enjoyed Jacob Ferguson's interpretation of the same poem that I examined, using the quote, “The artist speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity and beauty, and pain,” by Joseph Conrad. Now that I think of it, art always evokes one of the emotions he mentions in some way, shape, or form. Those adjectives of emotion are in just about any piece of art you will ever look at. In the "Harlem Dancer," the narrator is puzzled as well by the true feelings of the dancer. For me, it most often is wonder because I am constantly wondering what the author was truly feeling when he created the piece of art. What was the setting, his or her personal life. They are all tiny pieces to a giant jigsaw puzzle of what the author was feeling, and that always puzzles me.