An Ode to Art

I visited the neighborhood festival of Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel (train station district) today and managed to talk with a few friendly artists during that occasion. :D

While I was talking with the aforementioned artists I came to a realisation regarding what I personally love about creating and experiencing art: When creating art I use it as an expression of my own feelings, my own ideals, my own thoughts and my own personality. It's incredibly fulfilling and beautiful to create: you can see yourself in it, and you share something of your own with other people. It just feels great.
Same thing goes for experiencing art: since it also reflects the thoughts, feelings and intentions of the artist it is up to you to find them, to appreciate the piece of art and to rejoice in it. And most of the time you can see/hear/read/feel/... something in a certain piece of art, whether it is what the artist felt or not. But something is there. And that is the charm of that: the search, the recognition, and the feeling of embracing oneself in what was found.

So yeah, do art, it's awesome, and do enjoy the experience of art - be it a nice book, (blogpost :P), song, youtube video, movie, short story, ...!