What is art? Essay by Star St.Clair

Art is life. Art is visual sensual spatial. It is motion and stillness in
harmony with negative space full of sound and light. It is beauty, which
as Rilke said, is only the beginning of terror. it is an abyss and the
thing that catches us when we fall. It is god and it is good. Art is the
thing you view hear feel sense that makes you wish to go on living. It is
tenderness mercy grace and wrenching pain. It is severing, emotional,
visceral, ethereal, implacable and honorable. Art is everywhere in
everything like air invisible essential apparent ever present never
absent. It is paint poetry dance song swim flow motion locomotion and
standing still silhouetted against a red sky. It is shadow and dream and
the way the light falls and pattern and inexplicable. It is natural and
spiritual, and intuitive. It is life.