challenging the literal

This article was difficult to understand in some parts. But i think it was talking about how people perceive everyday life. It talked about different cultural perspectives, age groups, and social backgrounds, how they perceive metaphors differently. This applies to art because the artist should consider the cultural references of the subject matter.

Takes thoughts of others and why doesn't he express his own thoughts?

Should we as artist worry about are art and what we are trying to say?

Was this reading really necessary for us to understand what are art is about?