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October 30, 2016 – Lost
Love this! 🙂
a poem by my lovely friend Sam. check out more of her work here
Art Is About Making Connections
Check out this wonderful personal story on the subject of art, and the accompanying short film that I will say is “Captivating without end” because I want those three words to show up as a blurb advertising this short film somewhere.
Seriously, give it a look. 🙂
“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man’s emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?, 1897
I’ve recently written an article in which I discuss why the writer is an artist too, the same way as the painter for instance (Why The Writer Is An Artist). One of the key elements of art that I pointed out is that, in my opinion, art is…
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