On Art, and Time, and War

For the full article (on rediscovered works of art that were lost to the Nazis), please visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/arts/design/in-a-rediscovered-trove-of-art-a-triumph-over-the-nazis-will.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131106&_r=0.

 "art continues to be found, refusing oblivion."

"But while paintings, drawings and sculptures are sadly fragile, the ideals they represent — the best ones, anyway — aren’t. And so the painted woman by Matisse, fan in lap, a string of pearls around her neck, a veil draped over her hair, is a testament to art’s indefatigable ambitions."

We're all going to die someday, right? I think that's the biggest truth I know, that we all are bound for oblivion. And yet we have now.

We have our minds, our hearts and our spirits. We have our art, our ideals.

To refusing oblivion. To making art.