art strange poet my life is art....expressionistic being....my hands were my eyes 990414 ... nicedream net is what i say it is 990524 ... leslie I always feel like it makes a difference whether it's spelled with a capital A or not. 990527 ... strange poet cant you just write something about art instead of examining my use of non-capital letters...your fucking up the rythem...so get over yourself and stop being an asshole... 990601 ... leslie Jeez! What I wrote was in no way a criticism of you! I was saying I like things that are "art" more than "ART" (i.e., pretentious, high art). Please do not try to incite a flame war. 990602 ... red Blank page. 990710 ... emsie art is one of the most important things in my life. I love painting. I love drawing. I love creating. I love creating new things, especially when they turn out really well. I'm gonna go to art college for advetising. I'm excited... 990710 ... Joana Art is being miserable, depressed... if you're generally happy you cannot create beautiful, shocking, inspiring new things... Sadness is art's heart and soul. 990715 ... cold tea I'm in art school. It's a university with walls but also pinatas and peirogies. I can hardly sleep at night, what with all the drum circles. If you have to ask yourself "Am I am dreaming?" then you're dreaming. If you're asking yourself "Should I go to art school?" then you should go to art school. 990716 ... jessica everything mixed into a thick muddy soup, turned inside out, yawning, crying. the heartbeat of the trash can, the lips of my grandmother, the man yelling at the dog in his yard. artistic expression in garbage. 990922 ... trakie thank you cold tea, i will. 991205 ... thera I'm going to go art school (I hope). Sometimes I can render something recognizable. I can't really express all the rage and anger and sadness in me through some enlightening piece of inspiring art, though. Maybe I've never really tried. I just really like to draw. At least I can have control over how I create. Even if I'm making it for someone else, they can't ever tell me how to make it. I have complete freedom there. And freedom's a state of mind, right? So art could potentially free the world. I wish everyone would do more art. 991206 ... deb may i reccomend Colombia College Chicago? 300 s. michigan ave. wonderful place.. 12th floor main building rocks (fiction writing floor) 991212 ... jennifer hollywood art and real art are two entirely different things 991214 ... R.A.I.N. sell outs deserve no respect. not mine anyway how about yours? 991217 ... psyki i feel compelled to make stuff all the time why? 000214 ... BoofPixie its a picture of a stories high clothespin. that, and nothing more. 000311 ... MollyGoLightly Art. Hurm. Sometimes its just a thing people use to get blowjobs and praise. Not always, though. 000408 ... Brad I think that last disclaimer was put in for the sole reason of keeping me pacified ;) 000622 ... enon creating art is a side track to th inking. with in the art, it becomes the head, and with in the head becomes the deep dep per-- and only my head. ad only my art. dont you ever create for anybody but yourself. unless you are a heart less, "lets paint trees with bob ross" artist and allyou want is to be in a musuem without feeling it. without feeling your fingers on the material. your eyes should burn, your mind should burn. dont make plastic glazed over works of pathetic art. i hate the word art- its simple enough, but its not as simple as it should be...like "white" or "i" or "shavon". art is too hard to say with beauty. lets change the word, so all those "painters" can go fuck there work because it is art. and i can be called soemthing else. or how about we don't catagorize it at all. 000706 ... stan Art is long, life short, judgement difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard. Every beginning is cheerful, the threshold is the place of expectation. The boy stands astonished, his impressions guide him, he learns sportfully, seriousness comes on him by surprise. To imitate is born with us, what should be imitated is not easily discovered. The best is rarely found, more rarely valued. It is but a part of art which can be taught, the true artist needs it all. Those who know it half speak often and are always wrong; those who know it wholly speak seldom or late, and are inclined to act. Words are good, but they are not the best. The best cannot be explained in words. The spirit in which we act is the highest matter. Those who deal on symbols only are fools or hypocrites; they like to be together. They're constant chattering vexes the true scholar. The true artist learns from the know unfold the unknown, and approaches closer and closer to being a master. Now someone tell me who said all of this! 000731 ... stan Oh, i left out.....words are not the best because flour cannot be sewn, and seedcorn aught not to be ground. 000731 ... psycho insomniac ...is my life. Beauty, hatred, frustrations, and just raw emotions are expressed through my hands onto a canvis. I like to have all my art in a book that I can carry around with me so whenever I feel a creative erge, I can just let go. My art book would be the story of my life through visuals, colors, and little thumb-nail sketches. My dreams come to life on the paper and smudge off on my finger tips. I'm thankful for that eraser though, because sometimes, like my life, things just get out of controll. But with the eraser, I can fix the mistakes... or just rip out the page and start all over! My brother, I have to admire. He is the one who opened my eyes to this gift I have. He shares the same qualities as I, and teaches me to fix the little flaws and make things seem more real and detailed. If it wasnt for him... I would still draw like a child, frustrated because I couldnt get my stick-figures to express the feelings I had. But he was there once, I can remember. Well running short of words... I think I'll express my self on a block of wood now. It always looks better than letters jumbled up on paper, or mis-typed words on the computer screen. 000926 ... david still can save your soul 001220 ... NinNy Nu Nu bing Splat WoW thats a Pollock. 010519 ... enok is life, love, hate, heart, soul, feelings, lies, expression, depression, infatuation, fun, ugly, beautiful, disturbing......its basically everything. that's all. 010819 ... The Truth Art... Is what makes humans special. You create. You form. You invest your time and energy into completing a project for... for what? For the sake of creating? Because you can? Because you are an artist. But there are some. Some who, while investing their talents into a project... They put their soul into their work. They put their soul into their work. Suddenly, this "decoration" has been exposed to trans-dimensional energies. It is much more than creative decoration now. Much more than personal expressions with metaphorical tendancies. It is alive with your imagination. It breathes with your passion. It feels the gaze of the curious. The Art lives now, having touched your soul. 010821 ... Fire&Roses The most beautiful pictures I have ever seen are the ones that live in my head. the definition is stunning and they are made with more colors than I will ever know the names of. But it is what the pictures are of that is the most amazing to me... thought... 010922 ... futility My heart is an artist. My eyes are artists. But my hands, confused by being forced to live left-handed in a right-handed world, fumble. And so the visions are lost in translation. Perhaps it is the journey to carry the message that makes it art. 010924 ... Rhin i can see it. i can feel it. i just can't create it. i can't find it in my hands. it gets lost in between. i am going to explode. what do i do now?! death by art. 020702 ... DanMan Hey! I fucking HATE people that just think art is visual. I'm here to say that art is philosophy, poetry, MUSIC, and... sometimes visual. I'm a philosopher and I just wanted to say that I HATE you people who don't know that art is more than a painting or a drawing! Don't get me wrong, I love to paint. But I'm a musicain and a poet too. But yeah, that's all. Thanks... 020807 ... lukas art is it self, when sb really belived it 021202 ... I was alone hating somethins does not allow you to percieve the positive and equally correct viewpoint of other people on the same area such art. hating does not lead you closer to understanding, it rejects, it pushes afar. hate is not art, for art is evolution, evolution of oneself , to onelf etc. creavitity is evolution, it is the creative systems and mechanisms imbeded in our brain descending from somewhere, somehow, that provide us a guide towards behaving in a way that is pleasurable, a release of preasure a adesire to understand. art can be sad, can be mad. art is a more advance and purified system (not system but somehow art can be some kind of pure comunication... a singled out refined thought. )and the thought takes shapes, perhaps acording to the predisposition and cognitive abilities developed or inherited of the individual.and it may be painting, or sculptural, visual, auditory, olfatory, kinesthetically(dance) a combination of diferent media(ballet, a rock concert) etc. Art is relative to the diferent people who experience it. if it is visual art and their visual culture(iconic or semiological dictionary, and linguistic development(more precisely, the linguistic equivalent, or analy in images , not in words as linguistics implies)) is not very develop, thaty may not be close enough to understand it and recreate abstractly the moment of art. maybe their prefernd mode of thought is audutory. maybe it is mental, and the artrists who change media constantly may simpli make a pragmatic effort to adopt their intelectual findings into a form that can be comunicated to others by measn of a sensorial vehicle. art is exploring oneself, artist need not be afraid, need not feel alone. we are all so similar. the goal of art? to be together. to share. fellings, experiences . all that accounts as personal experience and distances us form others may be reverted by the explanation of an abservation. even if the observation is as my observation about this community, that we all share a passion for understandin. how it works, why it works, what works?.........and through that pasion, we are united, we are toguether. to all those who write about being sad and alone, who can make sense and have no clear goal be couse deciding what is best is soo dificult, i say to you. when in doubg, think, step bak and evaluate. iwill this bring people togheter, will this make us feel less alone. i just found out this site, and the content. coincidentaly , I came upon it by doing an experiment in the web. I decided to see what stories would develop form typing a random word into google, opening one of theses pages, and seeing wht it unravel. so i type "desire". and Got 9 million and something results. and then I randomely pased pages, not opening them, until page 50 something on the results page at google. and I landed here. I realiced that this is an exptended version of the idea i started doing this experiment in the first place.I also had this same ide of interconecting thoughts. I also thought art. we all have this capability. and remenber, the puzzle to solve is how to be happy. the rest, irrelevant. at least to my goal. and I cat think of a better goal. can you? if it encompases , ie is a more general word/thought than the idea of happines and is higher in the hyerarchy, then I will readjust my goal. but if you can , the when in doug, refer to the question? what is the goal? my god. this comunity is so special. I am so happy to have found it. it can not be so many coincidences. I feel such harmony, such strenght. sorry if typing or choice of words is unclear, it is clearly not my wish, but english is my second languaje, although really, languaje is us all but a luky few, a secon languaje. find your own voice, find your means of expresion and the right crowd to comunicatethe to. is definetly a component of my concept of happines. I live in london, and I am from spain. if you like sharing thought but can not find who to tell them to, write me, I am dying to meet others with newdream ideals. 030327 ... bla? art is what you make it. 030426 ... joda Is a sufferable cause. 030426 ... shorlove ...is "Holy Shit". 030426 ... scifininja i used to always consider myself to be an artist, always. but i cant stand art classes because i'm convinced that my way of doing art will be destroyed by them. my art is okay. i hate it. 030720 ... phil most things are not art but art can be anything art is used to show the mind art does not wrap frozen food art is not found within repeating swirls art is found in little pieces, like a single stroke on an entire canvas I see art in how strange_poet first attempted to talk on this topic. 031001 ... phil *art is not repeating swirls 031001 ... spathic sometimes i think that everyone knows everything about art and sometimes i think that no one knows anything about it. people get so lost in things of fashion and trendiness but every so often i see someone reach outside their comfort zone to embrace something they know is beautiful without trouble or self-consciousness. (there is no beauty without effort, and there is no effort that is not beautiful. -jeanette winterson) people get worked up and defensive because art is not easy to define but i think everyone has a conduit through which to percieve if not always to create. i think the best art celebrates difference because it shows you moments that are not your own and perhaps never will be. and sometimes people feel attacked by art when it seems as though it is some big joke/conspiracy...and there are those people who can get away with convincing others against their better judgement...and on the other hand sometimes people see that somebody else has had a revelation and then they become jealous because it is not theirs, and so refuse to accept it. all these things don't really matter though: because i can't afford to care what everyone does or does not think. all i know is that painting makes me happy and for the most part there aren't that many people who are really more interesting than the act of painting. (it's the act that counts in the life of the painter: the testament to how one spent one's limited portion of eternity...not saying that objects more important than people)...after all that i suppose there's the question of commerce but that's for another day entirely. 031011 ... phil I think they don't make art anymore. The art is in my brain. The tricky part is getting it out. I hear music in there better than anything. 031011 ... phil "uncertainty of transition" -misquoted from everdumbening 031011 ... phil "uncertainty of creation" -slightly better quote from everdumbening 031011 ... phil OK a real honest to god quote from 'shift' by everdumbening "A score of 95 on a science test may not have been the score hoped for, but it's still a good score, and objectivity has a certain taste to it, win or lose. This taste had become so familiar to me until recently. Playing with words has been part of that tranisition, that learning how to sit with the uncertainty of creation. But art is a whole other ballgame still." 031011 ... mak is anything and everything 031224 ... Alpha_Shell [RT] art, without the A; a vacuous premise, vomited by the Turner Prize with annual frequency, 040207 ... a thimble in time "Every one discusses [my art] and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." Claude Monet 040208 ... zeke harmonic symbolic dissonance observed 040209 ... zeke received as wind passes through transparencies in identity to blend with significance and future memory to event horizons that risk flying too close the light warms and changes what i know 040218 ... z http://www.1h05.com/diad/ 040218 ... ethereal my life as i know it. is all art. in motion. 040227 ... ryro Art should be stopped. He doesn't know what he's doing and someone is going to get hurt. 040404 ... ethereal Anything artistic is an instant orgasm. 040404 ... peintre Art gives good head. 040624 ... puredream here here! 040624 ... hsg "art at its highest and nature at its truest are one." does anyone know who said that? 040721 ... hsg "art at its highest and nature at its truest are one." does anyone know who said that? 040721 ... SuperVixen I am an artist. I may be incapable of drawing, but I know how to feel. I draw with my emotions. Paint the sun rising over snow-capped mountains, brightening the horizon, the yellow orange glow blinding me. Sketch seagulls flying over the ocean as a ship sails deeper into the fog, and the sand glides along the shore with the wind. I constrain you to visualize the images in my mind. That's what makes me an artist. 050102 ... mp21k (: 050102 ... . . 050202 ... oldephebe anybody ever read any of jed perls literary deconstructions of modern/classic art? for a non-artist who is all thumbs with a brush or pencil his writings give my inchoate aesthetic responses to the created or photographed image a cogent representation or articulation in a syntactical verbal construct. In short, its like if a person had the chance to take music 101 and begin to examine on a remedial level the compositional genious of Beethoven or the insipid repetitiveness of Soliere, well Soliere actually wrote a few pieces of if not structural and or compositional innovation, at least from a melodic and or passive appreciation perspective those several pieces were of a suprisingly melodic captivating ebullience in respect to his other more pedestrian pieces that seem to mime, and none too competantly the works of a young Mozart not yet at the hieght of his incredible powers. ... ... 050202 ... jed perl writes for the New Republic 050202 ... Dizzy it is not have to be drawn or painted, it is merely the product of creativity that has been let loose. 050625 ... phil science without facts? 060105 ... m137 http://www.wekillyou.net/ 070706 ... erase http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/photos/frameerasedirtysouth.jpg 070713 ... s I want to make a dreamscape of image. words and questions and I want to make you think. I want to change your point of view without you realising it was me who made you change. I want to show you what it is like. The worlds you could never know. I want to take you inside so you could never ever question again that we are all the same and made completely different. I want you to see. If I can't make you see then I want to confuse you. Shake you up and unsettle you and make you wonder so your world is never quite so stable and certain again. I want you to know that you will never ever ever know. I want you to feel it deep in your gut so that when you hear those stories that make you laugh and fill you with you contempt... you don't. Instead , you feel and you think and maybe you even act or refrain from acting. I want to create things of beauty and brilliance and wild escapism and ecstasy. I want to take your breath away. 071030 what's it to you? who go blather from