first off, I know this might piss off some of my watchers, but I'm sorry, just stating a view I have

most people have lost touch with their emotions, and they perpetuate the feeling that having emotions is bad. Now they're not completely without emotions, but they're suppressing the wrong emotions and they're becoming excessively angry, irrational (which I think the idea of rational has been mutated into something it shouldn't be), and vain. Now this ideal is extending into Art. Now most people focus on the technical skill of an artist rather than the idea being portrayed by the art, which is what art was created to do. It's becoming as vain as the rest of the world. Now I'm not saying having technical skill is bad, but if you focus on the technical skill so much that you forget that art should portray emotions, ideas, ideals, philosophies, etc..., then you're not what I would call an artist. You're a designer, not an artist. What a lot of people have seem to have forgotten is that technical skill isn't what art is all about. Now I'm not saying that the feeling art portrays is the only thing you should focus on either. You have to reach your own middle ground between the two, but most people now focus on technical skill rather than the feeling behind it. The designers are more of the "jocks" of the art world. Some will make fun of you for having feeling behind your art, some won't, but they don't put much behind their art as far as feelings, ideas, ideals, etc... goes

it's recently started bothering me because I've just recently started noticing it.