As pretentious as it might sound, I don't think it's enough to CREATE art, you've got to share it. Even if it's a short story or a diary entry you're embarrassed of. A doodle in your notebook or a gem of a quote you thought of. Not enough to make magic, you've got to put it to use.
In a way, I think that's why I love quotes. They're little snippets of art and wisdom usually summed up in a sentence or two. This helps in the remembering. Unless you're me, with chalk on a sidewalk, and can't recall one good quote to save your life. If you're me, you'll remember the quotes as soon as you get home and the chalk is out of your hands and the sidewalk resting miles away.
Quotes are like slices of an elaborate wedding cake: easy to hand out and always delicious. But the masterpiece from which the quote was born is the entirety of the cake: layered, gorgeous, and intricate.
I'm never seen anyone over the age of 35 writing on a sidewalk with chalk and I hope that changes soon. More people need to share art. Lend your friend an album, a book, watch movies with them, share quotes and stories and then write them on the sidewalk for all to see.
We live in a world of roughly 7 Billion people. For world peace to even be fathomable, we've got to not only BE happy, we've got to share it with our neighbors.
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