To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.