i think that no matter how much people think they own and try to own things, it can't happen. it's impossible. ownership is a false concept, in much the same way that the ego is a false concept. no person has the capacity to own anything or anyone. no person has the capacity to be cut off from the system that is our universe. we all own everything and are in turn owned always and completely.
it is frustrating, and i am guilty of this too: letting people and being let to be who you are. to experience as you wish. letting things be what they are. it's a challenge i face myself to accept in others and encourage others to accept me. it is true responsibility for yourself..
as far as making art goes.. i think you are always making art for everyone. but that doesn't mean you have to take anyone else's opinions in to consideration. i think it's a balance you need to find as an artist. some art isn't even meant to be seen by other people. some of it might be made for 1 person to see... isn't it then ok to take that other person into considreation? i think it depends on who you are and what you want to accomplish with your art, but not that it should always be selfish... again, i think selfishness is impossible, even if you are a hermit making art in a shack in the woods for no one else's eyes, you are taking the absence of people into consideration and you are also (even if subconsciously) taking the universe into consideration because art is magic and magic transcends yourself, it's an externalization.
i think that as long as i am not physically in someone's space pushing my art on someone that i shouldn't be held responsible for the reactions of other's to my art.
