How much of art comes from the artist?

Please to forgive - I am having a very hard time reading your .5 font (alas, the eagle eyes begin to change).

This is an outstanding topic and I'll ponder it. For now I'll be a simpleton and say that I don't mind when certain things are interpreted differently then I intend them. The perfect example is the poem I have in the second Revue, "the power of suggestion." That was a total free association write for me that suggests the essence of certain parts of my teenage years without any specific message. Everyone who reads it takes it differently, and I'm fine with that. But with some of what I gather from you and Stephan it seems that maybe with that kind of response, the words are relegated to the category of "not art."

I'll think on this some more.