Art

It is strange to see that so many pieces of art never achieved recognition in their time — Vincent van Gogh, Franz Kafka, Kalidasa (although his case is more ambiguous). There are many such examples.

A fascinating aspect of Kalidasa is that we don’t even know for sure whether these works were written by a single person named Kalidasa, or if the name was a pen name under which different authors contributed.

Kalidasa style is consistent. Same goes with Vincent van Gogh and Franz Kafka. Nevertheless, their works are considered art because "somebody created this so many years ago." In such a case, a question arises: Whether one truly appreciates an art or the time it has taken to reveal itself?

Don't take me wrong, All three personalities and there works are phenomenal. My argument is not about validity of their work being an art but about validity of art itself. And from what I have seen, art is not just an expression.

Consider this:
You know how to make ink. Therefore, you have plenty of ink cartridges. But you cannot write without a pen or, more generally, without a tip. You need a sharp tip that will allow the ink to slowly and precisely drop onto the page. The sharper the tip, the clearer the writing. You need a sharp tip to write clearly with your ink, you need a narrowed path to express with your thoughts.

And when one succeeds in creating such a tip, whether it's a brush or a pen or a mouth or a needle but more than that a path for his/her thoughts to compress into a thread of expressions, He or she is an artist.

Now, if you judge an art by the years it has sustained itself, you don't care how refined the tip was but how faded the ink is. You can call yourself a history enthusiast but certainly not an art critic.

In this world, every living thing carries ink within itself. What varies is the tip, the hole at end, the idea of expression. And one who can reduce the size of this hole to its smallest possibility, one who has the capacity to ponder over every piece of his thoughts and weave them, one by one, into expressions should only be regarded as greatest artist of all time.