What Is Art
Can art exist without sentiment?
Can it debut without a concept behind it?
Can it breathe into a soul without it?
Can it truly be art when its meaning is not or shrouded?
First things first – what is art?
It’s experience and skill is its counterpart
Yet more simply, it’s something thought as beautiful
But beauty of itself is merely dull
Something dull, needless to mention, is devoid of a soul
Therefore we must consider the writer and the written as a whole
The artist and the art, the molder, and the clay falling apart
The potter and his soul that led him to buy the material from the mart
So the creator has a soul that exercises will
Otherwise nothing would be created – all would remain still
Only those with souls create things that thrill
The eyes of spectators, even though art has no soul but is real
Copyright © John Stapleton | Year Posted 2012
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