Art and meaning

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I often create art just because I like the way it looks. I don't think of any "meaning" for it I just create it and enjoy myself. I often notice in the art world people want art work to have a "meaning". Usually something philosophical, some social issue or personal emotion. Most of my art doesn't really have any "meaning". It's just something I enjoyed creating, I was curious about or just felt like creating for whatever reason. When people ask for an artist statement I often think of some BS "meaning" for my artwork after it's been created. I've noticed the same for music.

Its funny that artists are often approached by people who love their work, who see all sorts of different meanings in their work that aren't there. Artists are usually too polite to say anything.
There's the famous example of the method actor who asked his film director what was the actor's motivation in going through a doorway. To which the film director replied, to get to the other side.

speaking of the beatles, there was indeed some deep meanings behind a lot of their songs, a backstory as it were. it turns out that the song "fool on the hill" has an "etymology" that is quite complex, but is rooted in a weird paranormal incident when paul was walking his dog [named martha] atop primrose hill overlooking london, and as he watched the sunrise, he noticed martha went missing. paul looked around for her when he encountered a strange man wearing a belted raincoat- the two exchanged pleasantries about the sublime view of the city atop the hill, then paul turned away from the man for an instant, and when he looked back the man was gone, which was strange because the nearest trees were hundreds of feet away and the man could not have run that far that fast. then again, since paul was at that time a heavy user of mind-altering weed, it could just have been that his perceptions were up in smoke.
so that is one part of the fool on the hill, the original impetus for lennon/mccartney to write it down on paper. the other part of the fool has to do with george and his veneration of the maharishi, "head in a cloud, the man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud" [IOW the hindu religion has been referred as being made up "of thousands of gods/voices"]- and when george tried to get paul and john to share his interest, he was met with indifference ["but nobody ever hears him, or the sound he appears to make, and he never seems to notice..."], IOW john and paul weren't listening. so i am gathering that the maharishi was indeed the other major part of the subject of "the fool on the hill."

Sometimes art can have a meaning, but my meanings usually are "I need to draw and when I put the pencil to paper, this came out randomly."
I have one picture of a humanoid person with their hand on a large glass dome. On the other side of the dome are humans with their hands over their ears and eyes clenched shut. That picture does have a lot of meaning, and it's a meaning most people don't understand. That I often feel like an alien, separated from the humans and I feel like I see things they can't see but they don't want to listen, or can't understand me when I try to tell them.
I don't know what it is about people thinking art/music needs a meaning, though. For some people, it's hard enough grasping that someone can create something while all they can do are bad stick figures, how can the artist not have a meaning behind it as well? Does everything need a meaning? Without meaning, does it have purpose other than looking nice? Does it need it?

I just had a thought. Maybe they want the artist to tell them how to feel...