Art doesn’t have to be useful. A bowl does. Learn to make both and you’ll respect each more.

Some things earn their keep by meaning something and some by working, and the two trainings are different. A bowl that leaks has failed no matter how lovely it is, while a drawing that holds nothing can still be the best thing in the room. Learning both teaches you when to chase feeling and when to chase function. Each one makes you better at respecting the other.

Make one of each in the next month: something purely for its own sake, and something that has a job. Hold the useful thing to a hard test. Let the useless one be as strange as you want.