Points of view

Art Circle

What is art?

ART IS...

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
- Robert Motherwell -

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
- Edgar Degas -

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”
- Friedrich Nietzsche -

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." 
- Twyla Tharp -

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
- Aristotle -

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together." 
- John Ruskin -

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."  
- Amy Lowell -

...AND MUCH MORE!

What is art for?

Art is useful to you to question and undertand your reality, the universe and your own existance. To understand yourself and others.
To transmit "something"; it can be: knowledge, emotions, feelings, history, thoughts, doubts, moods, social criticism, ideology, wisdom, philosophies, concepts, etc..

With art we are going...

Making art is turning the:

INVISIBLE (ideas, concepts, feelings, emotions, moods, etc...)

to

VISIBLE (Artwork: music, paint, arquitecture, design, fashion, food, dance, etc..).