I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!
If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person...
Art is what you get away with
The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,...
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.