What Is Art To You?

To me I see art as the expression of things that you feel yet you cannot see or things that you feel but aren’t able to express in words. Art is my outlet, it’s what makes me who I am. Sometimes I just wake up with the weight of the world on my shoulders and the way I feel is something that I can’t get down into words. That is when I grab my paint brush and the colors express it for me. It comes straight from my mind so smoothly and it slowly appears on my canvas speaking in silent words. Art is also my escape. A lot of times I can’t comprehend why things happen in this world, or why people do things, or say things. My life gets stressful from the constant “every day life.” That is when I must sit and write to just simply enjoy life in my head and relax as the world quiets and all I hear is my subconscious mind.

Art is my life, it’s the air I breathe. It’s in the sounds I hear, my beliefs, my family. It’s in the music I love and make. Art is me. I express all I see, feel, experience, understand. It’s my hates and loves. I see it as my life support, what I need to live. I turn my life sorrows and pain into my art, my negativities feed my souls fire. I am not in your head, I am only in mine. But I do know that we all come together on this website because we understand that one word…Art. My Big Question, WHAT IS ART TO YOU?

Gene Marie
President
Intrinsic Expression