Many artists claim they work in splendid intellectual isolation, responsible only to their own innermost Muse, unconcerned by what other people think of their work. It's my opinion that Art necessarily involves communication, and this requires that artists interact with an audience of some sort. This view might be viewed as a kind of infidelity to one's Muse by the excessively earnest among us, but it really isn't. No artist is required to please his or her audience, after all. However, some kinds of Art must be judged failures if they do not please their audiences.
Books written for young children are one such art form.
Domestic pottery of the sort I make is another. Somewhere there is a bowl maker whose Muse tells her to make her audience uneasy, and so she makes her bowls in awkward shapes, using colors that hurt the eye, and imagery that disturbs the mind. If my Muse should demand that of me, I'd have to speak sharply to her. My most successful bowl will be the one that its owner uses with growing pleasure each time it is taken from the cupboard, the one that its owner grows to love in the way that we can love the beautiful objects that make our lives richer. I used to get feedback from my audience by going to art festivals.