A Way of Life.

"Art is not a thing, It is a way." This is a quote by Elbert Hubbard but it is a view held by many. There are those that think art is a physical thing, that it is objective and has no true essence beyond the senses. However, there are those like me, who believe art is something more than what is seen or what can physically be held. Art isn't a painting on a wall in a museum. It isn't placed on a stage for entertainment, and it isn't just a piece of marble sculpted into the likeness of something. Art is deeper, it is a feeling. It is an emotion that is unexplained, unknown until felt, and as we have studied before it is something indescribable.

Have you ever seen a dancer dance? A sculptor sculpt? Even a mathematician do math? Have you seen the look on their face the concentration the feeling illuminating from their very being? It is a nonverbal experience that if tried to be verbalized wouldn't even get across have of the experience. I believe that for some art is a way of life. Think of something you really really love, wouldn't you say it is apart of you? My religion and my faith is something I hold dear to me, something that I would never part with under any circumstances regardless of some slip ups and mishaps I may have. To me that is my art , that is my way of life, that is my indescribable feeling. To the musician music is their way of life, to the doctor saving lives is their way of life. So, what is your way of life? What is your art?