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Art Is About Life

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Janis Ian

Having a sensitive soul is not a privilege; it’s a present we received and enjoyed with the life. All of us are sensible people. The proof is we can enjoy the art. The art as life is a shared experience, in my opinion. And, specifically, in the art takes part three actors, at least: the creator, the work and its viewer. We need to establish an open dialogue between them if we want understanding and reliving the art.

In American culture class today, as an inexperienced observer, I would like to give my opinion about how to understand the art. So, I must say the art is a multiple manifestations. In particular, I prefer arts like photography and music. About the first, I want to cite to Ansel Adams. He talks about his art and he says the photography is not to take, it’s about to make. Then I think is similar in life because my life must be to make things. For the other side, we have to Janis Ian, who speaks about the instinct talent. She suggests we have gifts and we must not waste it. On the contrary, we must grow and develop our skills. And this is something that we often forget: we have our own skills and must share them with all the others.

In conclusion, I think the art is the better analogy about the life. Or, in the words of William Faulkner, "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."