What Is Art All About? Why Do I Need It In My Life?

 Your Unique Self Masterpiece

To the right view 5 important videos that attempt to answer the question: What is Art? Then read on below.

The greatest work of art you will ever work on in your life is you. You are an ongoing work that is changing each minute. Your cells continue reproduce themselves. Your genetic makeup is like on one else’s in the world. Your brain never stops connecting and reconnecting with information that is stored in a memory storehouse that is miles long and several stories high. You are wired like no one else.

Your life is a giant canvas. Only you can make the creative choices of where you will go, who you will love or marry. Only you can choose for yourself the vast directions or colors that you will use. Only you will establish the content, composition, medium, and genre that will make up your life. Only you will establish the depth of the work of art that is you through your character and personality. Will your life be a masterpiece or a bad sketch?

Life is mostly about risk. Without risk there is no creativity. Without creativity there is no life. You take a risk from the moment you choose to take your first step in life. You take a risk when it comes to loving someone that might not love you. You take a risk in choosing the right profession, hair style, clothing choices, and the list goes on.

Art embraces beauty. But not all art is beautiful. Sometimes beauty lies in the hidden or the shadow areas of life. Beauty even has a mathematical ratio and is embedded in math. All science contains elements of beauty that can be seen with the human eye, under a microscope, or a million miles out into space. You yourself are a walking science project that is a miracle, day after day, month after month, year after year.

Every day you face choices, some are the same, such as what you will wear. Some require character such as how you will set your life up for success. Every choice embraces a creative approach that enables your journey to be unique, a one-of-a-kind work of art. You may not think yourself to be creative but you are. Even reading this page of information has a creative bent to it. Some read it slow and allow the words to soak in so they retain the gist of what is being said. Some read it fast and go back to read the paragraphs that hold the most meaning to them. Some will miss the boat entirely and only skim these words. In so doing they are making a non-creative choice that is still a creative choice, and is still their choice.

Art is not about how well you draw, or paint. Art is not about art history or even museums. Real art that matters is you yourself. Art is already in you. Like fish in water, you live in art. How will you choose to see today? Will you see visual drama or comedy? Will you see the pain in the face of a loved one that needs comforting? Will you see yourself in the mirror and sigh? Perhaps you will choose to creativity to bring comfort by thinking of how you can best relieve the suffering of that loved one? Perhaps you can choose to see yourself in the mirror as a self portrait that is in progress and embrace hope?

Life = Choices Art = Creative Choices