Fine Art

   Artist in His Studio by Remberant

Don’t you see

it’s the art that matters -

that’s what matters

they say,

not the artist

not the life

not the love

not the heartbreak

not the scars

not the anger

not the joy

not the long hours of boredom

not the sinking nights

not the coffee-infused mornings

not the growing pains

of body, or soul, or life, or death

that generated them

but the mill, the night watch, the philosopher in meditation

or the sunflowers, the irises, the olive trees

or guernica or three musicians or the kiss

...so long as it matches the couch

Sometimes I wonder about how we judge the value of art, and in this picture, provided by Bjorn at The Imaginary Garden, the size of the canvas relative to the aritst is what prompted this particular little musing.