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I mostly just feel bad for people like this, who feel like art is some elitist pursuit they were being gatekept from, weirdly conflating creativity with output.

I'm not a professional artist, but have been making art my whole life. I have drawings I made 40 years ago in school, art school projects from 25 years ago, and sketches I made last week. They're all shoved in boxes that I may only look at once or twice ever again.

Most of it is not very good, and I've thrown out way more than I've kept. Making it was the fun part. Making it was the point. The output was secondary. Art is filling an entire sketchbook end to end, just trying to draw hands with a pencil.

Art is writing and recording entire songs that no one will ever hear, that I probably won't even listen to again, because the memory of experimenting with instruments, and learning how to record and mix them is some of the most fun I've ever had, the end product is almost inconsequential.