What Is Art, Art and Philosophy

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What is art?

"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively” Gustav Klimt |

Personal view of art

Art is a way of living. It is not something that you can do just like this. It is something that comes from the heart of an artist, a person who has his own view on the world and looks at it with wide open eyes, trying to see the invisible, hidden from people’s side.

You don’t need to be special to see those thing, you just need to open your mind, feel the world around and embrace it through your vision. Art is about shaping and expressing something, something we share - a memory, feeling, and different point of view.

You need to be in contact with art -to put yourself in the artist’s shoes and make connection with him, to look at his perspective and try to understand it.  Nobody is born knowing everything. Everyone has knowledge to some extent and everyone has his own opinion on how the term "art" is defined. 

Art is not about pleasure, it is about making you think and see different perspectives. Man is the creator himself. He built himself a small part of each character and makes it unique. The man is perfect, polite, and respectful and has integrity. He is able to understand and help others. Some conceder it as difficult to understand and the more difficult to is to understand, the better the quality. But art is simple as long as you have the willingness to accept it.

What is art?

Mentioned in the words of the Greek 'Father of Medicine' – Hippocrates he portrays it in a very simple and explicit way: "Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile" from Latin means “life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult". This thought makes me realize that one of the most valuable things that man has created has the general name art. All of those rock paintings, ancient statues, preserved their...