What is Art?

In its simplest and most organic form, art is an urge to communicate. It is a human condition; an attitude, a process, a way of life.  Art is the evolution of ideas into form; taking the small, seemingly inconsequential things in our daily lives and through individual expression turning them into something precious and sublime.

We are all alchemists.  We can bring color and vitality into the dullest and listless of lives simply by recognizing the raw infinite material that all of life provides us.

It is the very essence of human nature to push forward; to express, explore, and break free from self-imposed limitations. With discipline, imagination, an open mind and heart -- our very lives can become a work of art.

-- Robyn Lark Wakefield
Forty in Paris © 1992

"Self expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment." 
--Pearl S. Buck