Why is art inspiring

Chesterton Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day. Art is science made clear. Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. Those who have the gift of creative expression in unusually large measure disclose the meaning of the individuality of others to those others. In participating in the work of art, they become artists in their activity.

They learn to know and honor individuality in whatever form it appears. The fountains of creative activity are discovered and released. The free individuality which is the source of art is also the final source of creative development in time. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language… I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.

Exupery It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Exupery Beauty will save the world. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Fiction gives it form. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. The blank canvas demands you exceed yourself.

And most times you fail. This pisses you off so bad you want to quit making art or makes some artists want to quit living. But then you calm down and come back to the work. You reach toward the true, the good and the beautiful and become a better person through the struggle. I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbour a greater life than we know.

Their nature is to persuade, to convince, to enter into us through our pores. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

So keep looking until you find it. To create means to relate. She is founder and director of Manhattan Arts International www. Awesome post. Your email address will not be published. It presents us with an alternate or modified reality we can freely explore and wander about entirely in our own minds, before walking out of again into our regular lives.

Like a waking dream we can enter at any moment. Good art tells stories, the catch is the stories take place entirely in our own minds. The artwork—the painting, sculpture, song, or writing—serves as a means for us to escape into a different mentality.

Artwork allows us to temporarily shift our perspective. Rebecca Solnit elegantly summarizes this point in her book The Faraway Nearby where she writes:. We turn to art for inspiration because it allows us to travel somewhere else, to jolt our perspective into something we may have not seen before, for the benefit of comparing that experience to something else. Solnit explains that each object of creation has the same potential:.

Artwork is often one of the easiest tools to use for changing our perspective, entering a different time or place, and fueling our imaginations.