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first visit to the Louvre, it was as if she was looking right through me across the ages of time and would be long after I left my earthly bonds. Viewing the Winged Nike of Samothrace, even headless, you can feel the graceful tension in its wings—it’s as if she’s a millisecond from her leap into flight. Moments like that have been repeated in every institution that I have ever visited. The thrill of feeling art’s power never gets old. I fell in love with the experience of it. Art and artists are vital to our culture and its survival, expressing every form of this human experience and recording those moments within the framework of their times. The culture they live in may be dust, but the expression of it, in the countless artistic forms, lives on forever. We cannot converse with someone from the time of the Romans, but you can see how they lived in frozen volcanic moments that are Pompeii and Herculaneum. We can’t know the daily life of a Parisian courtesan, but we can view her beauty locked forever in paintings such as La Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Done in 1814, the painting carries the woman’s sexual vitality across time with a verve that is truly remarkable. So, take a moment out of your busy life and visit your local museum, gallery or sculpture garden. If you look hard, you might just see a part of your human experi- ence reflected in the frozen images there. Look deep, there is a timeless story being told… if you are patient enough to listen.
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