It is said that in real life, artists are always incapable. For an artist, the problems of real life are so boring and puzzling. In face of these problems, their intelligence has only been used in one field, delicate but too narrow. Art becomes an anchor point of artists where they can escape the unendurable real life. They not only can stay in it, but also enjoy it. Art is their haven, full of colors, light, sounds and imagination. But in my opinion, art should not be separated so clearly from life.
Firstly, life is the root of art. All the artists make their work out of their own experience. They add their feelings to the work of art, maybe joyful, maybe sad.
Secondly, art can be help make the beauty of life. Though the styles of Rembrandt and Degas are different, they both would turn a direct scene, which might be ugly and disappointing, such as an exhausted worker or an old lady, into a beautiful picture. Just an Walter Horatio said that in that short distance, the world is full of brightness, colors and music. If you can enjoy the beauty of art, you can make your life filled with endless happiness.
Thirdly, art can clarify and explain life. In our daily lives, similar situations bring similar reactions. Our feelings became duller and duller. But in a clearly organized artistic novel or drama, our feelings recover and switch into very strong ones. It appears that the contradictions of real life are fiercer than art can express. That is true, but we cannot experience all the contradictions. Daily life always brings us dull and shallow feelings. The tragedy Hamlet clarifies and also deepens those exciting events that happen in the situations familiar to us. Many people feel that it is literature, not life itself, that makes them understand their own plain affections.
Man cannot live only on bread. With the help of art, people not only recognize but also learn to experience the deeper affections in life. Art makes life artistic.