Your philosophy is your worldview, which is a backdrop for all thought and a context for all knowledge. To ignore the topic of philosophy is to be doomed to the second choice. The New Criterion, a journal of esthetics. Not only a great wine magazine, but they're relaxed and exuberant about it.
Art can have the amazing power to make people feel.
In many cases their responses to art can be stronger emotionally than their responses to their personal lives. For me, the artworks of Rand, Michelangelo, and Puccini are alive. But for an artist to use these feelings and responses as a starting point of creativity is a complete waste of time. The key is to dig down deep inside myself, and find that spark, that passionate burn, and focus on that feeling, magnify it, and bring it out through paint. When Jazz Turned to Death-Worship.