Why Make Art?

"Captiva" painted by Cindy Mott McGarry
24x36" oil on canvas - Sold
Giclee prints available on My Website!

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein

The life of an artist is full of experimentation and discovery. Keeping a constant newness to one's art is exhilarating and wonderfully challenging. Art evolves and changes. There is a uniqueness to each piece. People make art because it is fun and necessary. Even cave people had an innate desire and drive to create!

So many people are artists and don't even know it. Chefs, seamstresses, engineers, financial planners, CEOs, entrepreneurs etc., all work to make and build something they think about in their minds. The creative process is very important in producing just about everything you see and do throughout the course of a day. Just about anything people do can be considered a work of art.

The health benefits of making art are now much more widely known and understood than ever before. Making art provides us with the ability to heal emotional wounds, expand one's understanding of self and others, elevate moods, improve depression symptoms, have an obvious effect on important physiological criterion, boosts self esteem etc., etc.! Making and sharing art can help everyone be happier and healthier.

Have FUN! Stretch your intelligence! Make art - paint, plan, cook, write ... and DANCE!