Everything that has ever existed has existed because someone had the passion to want to create something new. Les Paul wanted to invent a new type of guitar, Vincent Van Gogh wanted to paint the kinds of blues he saw in the sky and William Shakespeare had many different stories buzzing around in his head and wanted to tell all of them. My point is that art (in any shape or form) is important to the furthering of humanity. In contemporary society, art can sometimes be seen as unnecessary or a waste of time and resources, but that is a lie that should not be believed in the slightest because art has such an impact on everything, not just those who can afford to view it, but those who have the desire to see it and create something even better.

Even in fields not associated with art such as technology can be seen through a certain lens as art. I’ve known many people who are in love with their cars and going to car shows. To them, that is art. The way the wax shines off of the hood of that 1964 Mustang could very well bring a tear to the eye of quite a few enthusiasts. When Steve Jobs brought the iPhone to the world, he brought a piece of artwork that could fit in the palm of his hand, but it could also create new things. It could edit the pictures that you take and then app designers burst into reality. The artists designing their dream in the form of an app. Something that they’ve created. It’s art.

When I write poetry or my short stories, I don’t do it because I want to be published (although that is nice), I do it so that I can create something with my own hands. I can take an idea that I’ve had in my mind and transfer it to the page so that I may connect with other people in the world. I can connect using my words so that I may help someone else, someone who may need to hear that someone else is also dealing with the same things that they’re also dealing with. That connection is pure and it belongs to me. To any artist or author or musician.

Art can be seen by many as something that belongs in a museum so that the bourgeoisie can go on a lazy afternoon and peruse the latest at the Museum of Modern Art, but art surrounds us and engulfs us. No matter what we do in life, if we have any sort of drive or focus in life, we will create something. Some kind of product, film or song we will be creating and furthering the world for the better. We are now more advanced than we were before your creation. Keep that drive and go out into the world and create something that you’re proud of. Don’t worry about people not liking it or not getting any money from it. That creation is yours and no one can ever take that away.