Why do we paint?

November 20th 2012

     Today in class was Chris Down's lecture. Since he's my fourth year adviser I am quite comfortable to listen what he had to offer. There is only one question that really caught my attention and I couldn't stop think about it. 

      WHY DO WE PAINT?

      I guess my quick answer to that would be, maybe if I really do know why then probably I will stop doing it.  It is like to ask me why I love you, I just do.

      To me or to nowadays society we don't really use painting to document image anymore. There are tons of technologies to do it. Painting becomes a higher documentation tool - for our emotions.  It's like the moment of truth; sometimes our painting could capture a moment that the artist who was painting didn't even realize. 

     I love painting, and I think I could never really know why I paint. I am only certain for one thing is that I will not stop to paint.