True Art

Prose By; Al Stone
2013
While making an attempt to create great art, one might consider it of great importance to be steeped in the knowledge of that which you are " through your chosen artistic medium" inspired to bring to life.
In my endeavors to create, I have chosen to experience this life at its most honest and revealing moments. I feel one must become the journey. To find the inner most, deepest inspiration as to experience first hand that which you chose to gain knowledge of. It is that first handedness which gives the true spirit, light, and brings to life the inspiration and vision for the creation of art. But in same, It brings down the artist. this is the cost, the price to be paid for being a conduit and hand for the creative muses.
It has been my observation that art is a mere telling of life, through the eyes of a great and sometimes twisted mind. There seems to be a raging inner battle of good and evil, that appears to be born within and rules true artists. This good and evil wages a turbulent battle in the fields of the artists mind, heart, and soul. This disturbing spiritual fight takes place for the poets heart, the painters hand, the vision of the story tellers. This is a fight that artists can not escape, whether ruled by their demons, or blessed by their gods, they are always in search of that inner most deep inspiration. The call and lure of this first handedness of a true experience is one that seemingly never allows the true artists a common and somewhat stable existence. Again, I say, this First hand experience of life in turn is the Artists ultimate demise, the price they will most surely pay for the perfection of their master vision and creation.

" Commonality is for the passionately weak "
"It is true we only see the remnants of the tail that follows a great shooting star"