Doing work that matters.

I saw an interesting commentary about the field of art and the opportunity and purpose for one's work in that field. The remark was made that, in general, nobody really cares about artistic work. That the world doesn't look for specific artistic work to be made. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be made, though, and doing it for a beneficial purpose is always an important goal. At least, that's how I paraphrase what was said. In my opinion, however, doing art/making art/working in an artistic field it doesn't necessarily matter if the world doesn't care about what you're doing(assuming the "care" part isn't technically referred to as money.) The art we do as performers, artists, creatives improves us through the process of creating it, thereby improving everything else surrounding it peripherally. And the value of work is so often and easily forgotten.