Thinking out loud about Art

I have recently renovated my msn blog. Da Vinci theme and all that. Every blog that I make seems to be about me as a writer. Is being a writer any different from being someone else? A doctor or a lawer or a mechanic or a farmer? Dont they all produce something? Arent they all creative in some sense? The writer makes art out of the activity of writing. Art, I think is not a separate category of activity but a dimention of any human activity. Art, in earlier days implied skill. Yoga is defined as the excellence in the skill in our day to day deeds. Poetry, then, becomes a certain skill in using words in a particular way. What kind of skill? What kind of way?

Entry for November 02, 2005

To be creative is to think in an off beat way and look at things in the ways that are non conventional and non-conformist. This is why art is so appealing, enigmatic and important.