New Year "New Me"

This upcoming year, I am going to focus my work on things I actually want to paint. I want to paint my beliefs and I want to have fun doing it in the style I find myself having the most fun. I will be coming up with more ideas and I'm looking forward to painting new things! But I'm also scared that it's not gonna hit the viewer with raw emotion. Maybe I'll learn how to create emotion with my paintings, but how do you create emotion? Do you make a really weird piece and see how the audience reacts? What kind of pieces create an emotional response?
​Time to do some art research.