"Art, when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside extra thing."
- Robert Henri
The Art Spirit
Art is not for me. Art is not for you. It's for us both. When we come to realize that it can be found or stirred up in any one of us, then we realize it's the doing of things, the invention, the creation, the exploration of thoughts, hopes, dreams, and ideas. However, it extends past just doing, but doing it well. With thought, care, and precision. Be it scrutinizing and following rules, or shattering everything formal we hold true.
Art is not beyond us. It is created by us. Our hands, voices, bodies, and tools create it. Therefore we are entitled to an opinion of it. Art "is" us in a sense. Not beyond us.
I think that sometimes art scares people into thinking it is bigger or better than we the creators. Or we look at artists with such high regard that they somehow transcend into something greater than we are. No, they are just as lost, scared, happy, dorky, and nervous as the rest of us. The difference is they cope with colors, line, pencils, pens, paints, canvases, brushes, stone, metal, voice, body, and technology.
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