what is art

“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.

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1. “We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you tell.”

–Guillermo Del Toro

Poetry is an essential part of society—but only as itself and not as a vehicle for something else.

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.”