I really care about painting (both the noun and the verb). Not just my own, but painting in general. It seems a little odd to say that I care about an activityitem so I will elaborate with some ideas, for my own sake if nothing else:
I do not care for animals painting or for machines painting.
I think painting is a type of communication, but because painting is a visual art form it is hard to write about. So instead of trying to wrap words around painterly ideas I will write about things and pretend that I am really writing about painting.
I hate stories that end in “it was all a dream”. If a chapter ends with “it was all a dream” that is ok, because it is quite alright for imaginary characters to have dreams. However it is not ok to have imaginary dream characters, despite how cool they sound in this sentence. Imaginary dream characters are lame and a bit like a ending every idea you have with the words, “just kidding”.
Just kidding is a good tool for trying to take back something you said while you were drunk, but not a very good tool for communicating. It is more of a tool to evade communication.
Inside jokes are fine, but will never be as good as real jokes.
Paintings are not jokes, but like jokes, not every painting is for everyone. Just because a painting is not (interesting/for/speaking to) a lot of people does not make it a bad painting. It does not make it a good painting either. Like stories about your friends, there is a time and a place for it, unless your story is inherently interesting. Or your friends are. Or you have a really nice voice. Which is probably not the case.
Music is cool because you can sing along. This creates an illusion of communicating but is something else. Singing along probably makes you a different person while you sing. You can never paint along and that is too bad, or is it. You can look at paintings with other people, but that is not the same as being in a band and covering a song.
Talking about a song is not the same as being in a choir. It is probably not as fun or as satisfying. Because there is so much looking at painting while you paint, I think there is a larger connection between painting and looking at paintings than there is between singing and talking about songs. However, talking about paintings is not singing in a choir.
Really only painting is painting.