What compels someone to make art? The French critic André Malraux suggested that painters and sculptors during their formative years are moved more by works of art than by reality. Yet some of the most inventive artists rarely if ever encountered art in their youth. This lecture discusses the diverse evolutions and contributions of five such self-taught artists now featured in the Inside the Outside exhibition: James Castle, Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Bill Traylor and Willie Young.