the devil

its been a long time now i am thinking about the motives, drives, or whatever behind an artist's creation. why a writer writes a novel, why a poet writes a poem, why a painter paints, why a flutist plays? what is that leads to the creation. (here i m talking about artist whom i consider as creator of art. and i am not at all conerned with your perception of an artist.)

an artist is always limited by his/her some externalities such as
1. the geography in which he/she was born, has grown up, stayed and staying.
2. his/her parents, neighbours, friends and teachers.
3. the social-economic-political conditions prevailing at various times in his/her life.

now all these things are LCM in every human being's life. then what separates an artist from others is:
1. the impact of these things on his/her mind and the effect of that impact
2. the ability to analyze experience and turn it into objects which can be used and may be reused
3. the ability to understand one's current skill level and the persistance to excel or improve.
4. and most important is to weave all these pieces into an art form (and this point differenciates a businessman, police, lawyer, politician almost every individual in some or other business from an artist).

now surrealism, abstract, symbolic, similie, cynicism, sci-fi, dance on a prose, what is all this? they also portray the artists' experiences, realities, the effects, and his interpretation. but in a different manner.

but the point where we started still remains. why an artist creates? what on earth makes him to do so as his non-doing of it is not going to change anything for the world. the entropy is still going to increase. the chaos will still establish itself. really, why?

his surrounding, parents, home, love, friends, leaders, ideology. will all these drive him. no. not at all. may be the experiences from all these will. but is it bcos of this he creates. ne. again not satisfactory answer. an experience wont drive to create. but its impact on mind. yes. it will. but what kind of impact?
when he feels happy? when he feels numb? when he feels miserable? when he feels to dance like hell? when he feels like crying? when he feels helpless? when he feels nothing? when he feels to kill? when he siezes to feel anything? when he feels very little, little, medium, intense, too intense of any of above mentioned or not mentioned feelings? which of these feeling and which level of intensity will make orginal art? which combo will yield to classic? which combo is good? which is bad? which leads to romance? which leads to realism and which leads to surrealism? which makes filthy novels, paintings, dances, plays which smell of hypocricy?

i am still trying to find out the answer.
all of yours comments are welcomed.
please feel free to write anything.