I believe he is, yes. He struggles with the emotional side of art, however, not being able to experience them himself.

[Supposedly, anyway. She still doesn't really buy the argument that Data is totally emotionless.]

So sometimes his work veers too much towards the technical. Personally, I think he does the best with music. After all, music shares much in common with mathematics, which is something he understands very well. He plays the violin beautifully - I always enjoy hearing his performances.

Really, the end result is not the most important thing, for him, or for me either. It's the process of creating art that matters - the exploration, if you will. Data is no less an explorer than the rest of us, maybe even more so.