Love is universal. It is inherent upon us that we fall in love. This is a divine gift from God who created mankind. It is mysterious, and in a lot number of ways, magical. Though unlike love, art is something that we appreciate in a visual sense, which may be too foolish to do the same thing with love.
Nevertheless, art is something that people are inclined to love. Some have passion for it much more than they do have for love. Art appeals to every sense the same way people are captivated by love.
Like love and beauty, art has no standards. It is relative. A simple stroke of line may capture your imagination amid its simplicity. But that's the beauty of it. It is neither the complexity nor the simplicity of an object that determines its artistic value.
Rather, it is those who see it that gives credit to its worth, not by art itself. Because no matter how classic, extravagant and majestic a painting may appear, if viewed by someone who just got off from a remote and farthest village beyond the scope of civilized society, it may just be one ordinary piece of object comparable to their crafts made by their hands.
In contrast, if you put something before an average person with a social and cultural background opposite to that of him, a simple drawing of a circle with a dot at the center might actually provoke his imaginations and think it is unique. The fact that it triggers him to think would make it interesting. Simply put, there's something more about it than meets the eyes.
However, despite the difference on how art is being viewed by an individual, it is still universal in nature. They go together as one, complementing one another. Its fusion has made our world a more exciting place to live - where people being inspired by artists to be more in love and it is about love from which artists draw much inspiration to create brilliant pieces of arts.
Art and love bring peace and joy to mankind. It is thru this way that we become more human. By exercising our deepest thoughts and make them work in such an artistic way would lead other people to realize and discover their best potential to love one another, or love someone in a very special way.
William Shakespeare did it for us. Romeo and Juliet would have been just ordinary names without much stories to tell had it not because of Shakespeare's huge heart and undying passion for love. His poetic prowess as a playwright and artist has changed our lives and inspired us. Picasso, on the other hand, has left his immortal mark for this world to see. And that is his greatest legacy; those paintings upon which his brilliance was engraved and in countless times has provoked our imaginations and challenged our wit.
So comes to mind this question, "Is love and art inseparable?" Can love still become more meaningful without applying some art in it? Can it survive on its own and unleash its magic without the charm that which art can create. Will it not be boring after all to love by just having a juice of your heart? On one hand, can art be more exciting to see if it is all about everything but not love? Will there be Romeo and Juliet-like stories if all artists, playwrights, painters and poets of old had to do it without love at all?
In Genesis, God has created everything but not a woman yet. At first, there was only Adam in the Garden of Eden, a place which may be called as a perfect work of art of God next to human creation. We can see here that, although the Creator has already done His art almost perfectly, only to realize there was something lacking in His work. While it may be too premature to say that Adam had already appreciate love (in an opposite sex) at that point (since there was no woman who came before him), but God thinks it was boring seeing him there alone. So He created Eve out of Adam's rib. Therefore, It is safe to presume that God has given him a woman so that he would have someone to love and then for procreation.
While it may not necessarily follow that if there's love there should always art, and vice versa, but can you just imagine a world where love and art exists distinctively apart from each other? There's only one thing absolutely right: we need them both.
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