So what is this thing art?
Some words I've collected which try to describe IT.
-A way to expand our own experience and existence. It has to do with essences, like poetry.
-A meaningful rendition of the human condition, and it tends to make life more bearable.
-Art encompasses beauty or harmony, skill, and a connection to the soul.
-It is when someone transforms something into a form that can itself transform us, if we allow it.
-Art is rooted in contemplation or "deep seeing" and that is where it leads.
-It shapes nature in new ways which allows us to perceive the truth.
-Art recognizes what is significant and reports those observations and communicates them.
-A magical process that compensates for the chaos around and within us and pulls it together into a new whole.
-It is a splash of color.
-A synthesis of creative forces intending to teach us more about ourselves and bring our consciousness to a higher level of understanding.
-The intersection of spirit and matter, the blending of idea and thing.
-A place of no rules, where you cannot define, confine or codify art.
-Art provides a sense of meaning or significance or intensity to human life that cannot be gained
in any other way.
-It shapes an individual’s sense of self and cultural identity.
-Where history is articulated and shaped.
-Valuable in a culture that communicates values and ideas increasingly through images.
-Structures the world of cultural experience.
-Art is about conserving culture.
-Purpose of art is healing, feeling and understanding. A path to understanding leads to compassion and tolerance.
-Art is a world where the pursuit of knowledge never ends. Where endless opportunities begin.
-Reflections of the forces that shape our lives and our universe.
-Art evokes real emotions. An appreciation of life, the world or just for beauty.
-Fundamentally art is art if the artist says it’s art. However, people and intellectuals sense and recognize real art through an intuitive sense.
-Ayn Rand says that "art has a specific nature, derived from the conceptual nature of human consciousness. That art serves as a vital psychological need. Through art, man is able to integrate and concretize his deepest and widest metaphysical abstractions, his fundamental values, so that they can be grasped directly, as if they were percepts."
-Art is inspired, some say, by the Gods themselves.
-Artistic passion expressed with sufficient conviction produces something called art.
-Great artists have not only the eye for beauty, but a talent for creating it.
-A truly gifted mortal can achieve recognition 100 years after death.
-Art attracts us by what it reveals of our most secret self. Jean-Luc Godard.
-A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Eugene Ionesco.
-The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. Edgar Allan Poe.
-Self discovery and personal growth.
-Art elevates the human spirit. Leo Tolstoy.
-Art is sharing and offering experiences and ideas provoked by the work.
-Art is a drink of water on a dusty plain. Sandy Taylor
-Art is like starring into a candle flame.
-Art is the absence of a void.
-Art is the stimulas of color, form and concept flooding the senses.
-Art is the visual exploration of depth, curve, line, and color, much like looking at a beautiful woman or man.
-Art gives birth to the subtleties of mind and emotion.
-Great art is the visible representation of powerful and profound energy exerted by a living soul.
-Art is created to remind us of the past, and to spark the future.
-Art is created to fend off mortality and to achieve immortality.
-Art reflects every part of our being, even the absence of emotion, of love, of compassion.
-Art is the seed of conception expressed through the soul, and without soul, the art does not speak.
-Art is when you feel something, - alive -for having drank of it’s essence.
-Art is the expression of the soul’s deepest truths.
-Art is the sense of truth, balance and life force energy.
-Art is a living thing. Robert Stoller
Art is all of these things and none of these things. It is really up to you.
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