I think it is lovely that we are all guided by our own unique "truths" in our art. From high realism to abstract in style, monochrome to violent color it truly "takes all kinds".
Art is the marriage of "expression" and "skill" or "application". All of us fall in different locations on the scale of each - some "express" what they see, others what they think, still others what they feel, or combinations thereof, and all at a level of "application" that is appropriate to them and their art.
There is a line from one of my favorite movies - Joe vs. the Volcano. Meg Ryan's character is talking about life:
"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."
Living, and then expressing, in a state of "constant total amazement" is what artists do, or should strive for, IMO.
