In case you were wondering, I haven’t forgotten about the essential writing theme… just keep on getting distracted by other things (and some more to come this week).
Here’s something short and sweet for a Monday on the essence of art, or what makes art essential.
I don’t generally think about writing as art – do you?
But I have to confess, this video based on the work of a performance poet has got me thinking a little differently about it.
This line in particular spoke to me (and got me saying: yes!)
Would they be glad that I did because they got something good out of it?
And my thinking differently about art got me noticing this line from Henry Miller too:
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Here’s to a week of a creative living 
Hat tip to Jamie Ridler Studios for pointing me to the video.
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The arts is a very essential part of human existence for it becomes the avenue where our subjective creative outpourings finds its expression not really for the appreciation of others but more importantly for it to be freed from bondage.
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I do think of writing as an art. Like art, it can be commercial, or it can be completely whimsical. Either way, it’s a reflection of the desire/emotion of a person’s soul, whether the artist who created it or the person who commissioned it.
I have just seen this and wonder if writing is an art, it depends I think on the context a shopping list for instance one can rarely see as art. But what of the novels of Emily Dickenson or James Joyce these must be art?
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@ Gerry – fair point, that it will depend on context… also intention, and the reaction it creates in the reader. I can think of a shopping list that could be experienced or perceived as art… might be a fun writing project to try some day in fact