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When to buy art?

1/29/2014

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When you see something that touches you deeply! When it stops you in your tracks! When these two things happen you are on the verge of owning an object of immense satisfaction to your inner self. A good piece of artwork offers something unique to who you are and will bring long lasting satisfaction. It will also be part of your legacy that will contribute to the satisfaction of others near to you. It will be there for you as long as you live. It will tell your descendants what fired your soul. It will tell them who you were.

A good piece of art will, in all likelihood, intensify those initial sensations of deep satisfaction, the more that you enjoy it. It will do so because the first elements will always exist in it, but over time you will discover other aspects that will bring meaning and satisfaction.

I came across an anonymous quote: “When buying from an artist you’re buying more than an object…. you are buying a piece of a heart, part of a soul, a moment of someone’s life”. This is the same heart and soul and moment in life that is somehow intricately interwoven with your heart and soul and moments in your own life.

These soul-satisfying experiences will capture you, not only at the time you stop to gaze at it, but in future moments over the course of your lifetime.

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Why do Art?

1/9/2014

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I came across these words and thought what a wonderful gift it would be to share with the world. I have no reference for this but I credit the author.

" Some day you may be as old as I am. Please take my advice, and don’t waste your short life. Invest your youthful vitality in your art. Share the best of your spirit with the world. Your body may die but you cannot die, So, don’t worry about petty things like bodies, money and possessions. They pass with the body and are meaningless. Don’t worry what anyone thinks of you, don’t seek approval, except from yourself". Your art and ideas are signs of your spirit. Your beauty endures forever, as do you". 

We become caught up in the web of life and our ongoing struggle to endure. We forget what's truly important.  Everyone who creates is an artist. It matters not what is created, it is your own, unique to you and you alone. It is your Art. As long as it engulfs you, as long as it absorbs you fully in the moments of its creation, as long as it transports you from a place of concern with daily living and puts you in a place where time and space do not exist, as it will, it satisfies your spirit . Art puts us all in every single moment in time. The NOW is all that matters because the last moment is simply a shadow of a memory and the next may never come. Don't waste this one. Do art - Create!





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    C. Aubrey McWatt is a Fine Artist residing in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania.

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