"As I stood and looked at it on a drizzly gray day," John Yau writes of looking at a radiant painting by Edward Zutrau, "I forgot that it was raining." That's what art can do — stop you in your tracks ...

Answers vary depending on the responder. For Jeff Tweedy, decades of making music and releasing written work have given him a real sense of creative autonomy. But it’s also allowed him to do something ...