Art is what it is because of what it means to the viewer. Take a picture, any picture, and keep it simple, it's just another picture. Steps, children, grass, a river. But take that very same picture, give it a meaning, feeling, inspiration, emotion, and that picture becomes art. A walkway upon heaven, innocence, a lucious beauty, creation of life. It is the secret behind the image, the all powerful human ability to relate.

Along the lines, we see pictures of people in distress, and it shocks us, or surprises us. We begin to imagine beyond the picture, to the person's history, feelings, sacrifices; to what we would be if we were them. A picture is what we do not know, and what we do know.

A quote that I have been recently exposed to by Oscar Wilde;

"Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transforming wine into water."
~Oscar Wilde

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