Art for me
I have therefore changed my point of view about photography and editing. What I want with my "art" is now to express. I don't really care if my motives are ugly or beautiful, as long as they create some sort of feeling in my "audience". Great art, - in my mind - is expressive art. And I think that art touches the places in your soul that words cannot. This is where I kind of agree with the speaker of the quote from above. I've seen a lot of photographies taken by people or whatever in the sunset. And though these people seem glad, there's always something disturbing, something sad, in a great shot. And that's when it becomes great art.
I've also read - or seen - somewhere, a kind of funny quote, but also kind of true. It goes like this: "Earth without art would just be Eh..."
As an art student, I am kind of obligated to agree, but I also agree as a hobby photographer and a "thinker". Poetry, writing, drawing, painting, photography, fashion: It's all art. Art isn't only about some old paintings from 18th century or some unexplainable lines and dots from the 21st, art is about challenging the community, putting feelings at the edge, touching people's inner souls. That's why I've never really understood (maybe I will someday) the point in this modern art. Yes, it might be cool or nice to watch for a few minutes, but then it's completely dead. There's no - at least not for me - value in it. If not the artist have managed to express something that touches the human spirit or that attacks the community of course. Maybe I'm a little rough, because art is art: a few dots and lines with no meaning is also art, but not in the the equal greatness of art that leaves marks in the mind, heart, soul and body of a human being.
To stress this, I am adding a few photos that's made a huge impression on me (sorry that there's no poems or drawings, because both of those are very expressive and touching).
