Sadly, far too many visual artists make very poor and inarticulate writers. When asked to talk about what they do, many of them produce an unreadable word salad infested with jargon from the postmodernist art criticism they were forced to read in art school.
Similar to the rule that you should never listen to your favourite actor be interviewed because you’ll discover that they’re not nearly as interesting off the stage as they are on it, it’s usually far better to not listen to artists talk about their art.
