How do I clean up this ambiguous sentence? [closed]

Question

I wish to express that art is self-indulgence, and that one shouldn't expect others to care about your art. I need to sum up this idea in a curt phrase suitable for a point in a list. The phrase I've got right now is

Art is self-indulgence; don't expect others to care about yours.

or

Art is self-indulgence; don't expect others to care.

I'm afraid this isn't clear. How can I rephrase this so it is unambiguous.

Answer 1

Since the principle you seem to be expressing works both ways, I'd emphasize it by stating it both ways; I'd state it in terms of need instead of expect; and I wouldn't use an imperative, which has you as a subject, but rather indefinite nonspecific one:

Art is self-indulgence; one needn't care about others' art, and vice versa.

or, if you'd rather be more didactic and explicit (brevity is not everything):

Art is self-indulgence. One needn't care about others' art, and one shouldn't expect others to care about one's own art.

Answer 2

You could also move "your" to the first of the sentence, and reference it with an it:

Your [art/Art] is self-indulgence; don't expect others to care about it.