We are creat-ures, so it is clear in the world around us that as a spider spins a web, a bird builds a nest, humans are possessed of a non secular and biological mandate to spin and build a whole world of beauty and function. Symbolism is the art of investing the world around us with meaning by expressing the invisible or unsubstantial thru observable or sensual illustration. From this definition, we have come to believe and to completely accept without any question that art belongs to people who paint the paintings, write the words, and mould the clay, into those representations of the unsubstantial and the invisible. Art has therefore been split into people who do and those that do not. The reinstatement of art into each one of our lives, both in our capability to get and to recreate it, is to come back to living alongside meaning. So far, only humans have tried to turn away from this call, and a case can be made that it’s this turning away that’s the reason behind most of our discomfort, suffering, and craving. Art, like science, philosophy, and politeness, is our strongest defense against the insupportable weight of all that we do not know. If we could disperse the weight among us voter artists, come up with a rather more inclusive outlook, we could lighten the incredible load of stupidity.

In the broadest sense, art is a reply in whatever form it takes–an expression of the love and beauty and fear as it is given to us thru the visible bounty of Naturethat pulls us further out of the mire. Creativeness is anything that fosters that indwelling spirit, any creation or activity that advances the progression of the unimpedable energy of expansion that’s life. The copying of that love and beauty, the relief that calms the fear, or the release supplied by the recognizing of that terror, is our task, is the way of art and creativeness, a whole-some reaction to existence. Whether or not you are a fire fighter, a pathologist, a child minder, or a banker, you need to be an artist.

You need to make a response to the grace developing out of creaturehood toward a larger man, toward God, and remain courageous as well as awe-struck by the huge consequences. In the meeting of this challenge, you’ll be recognized by a light in the center of those you come across, as extraordinary. The dedication to creativeness, like every other commitment, will become a built in, required, part of our life when we realize that not only will our art spring from and outline the center of, yes, our own identities, but just as importantly, it’s an expression of that which is larger than ourselves. So who we are becomes linked with the world, and it’s given meaning and purpose by what we do with this link.

We start with a sense that there’s something inside us that must act and express. We start by going outside the unhappiness we have experienced at having this something repressed, daunted, buried. We start with the thin person with the fat body, the sober, healthy being beneath the addict’s skin, the lover within our neglected hearts. We start with the hope and the craving of the creative force inside ourselves.