Nothing can match the charm of an evening at the opera house. I am looking forward to the day when the streets will be safe again so that I can go to the soirée performance as I used to.
I remember one evening when we arrived earlier than usual. We had the chance to walk around the main hall and watch the Cairo tower with all its colored lights, and I had the chance to visit a painting gallery. There I saw a very beautiful picture. I saw something in it that touched my heart. It was a combination of different colors with no definite outlines. For me it was an expression of a deep confusion mixed with a strange stability. I will be honest, I couldn't afford to buy it, so I secretly took a picture of it with my mobile so that I can keep a very little bit of this piece of art.
The reaction of my friend, to whom I showed this picture, was completely shocking. “How can you like something like that?” my friend said “don't you see how violent and aggressive it is?”
Violent! Aggressive! How come my friend saw all this and I looked at the same picture and saw something completely different.
I tried to prove my point, but I found no convincing argument. Eventually I said: “you can't say that this is what the artist wanted to say, you can never tell what was in his mind while he painted this”
“You are right” my friend said, “YOU, also can't tell what was in his mind…..”
I got it, no one can know for sure. I won't deny it, I didn't dare to show this picture to anyone, but I never deleted it. To me this picture meant something, and I believed it, and I can't feel any different about it… to me it will always be as I saw it, pure and true
Any piece of art, whether it's a painting, a book, or music, as soon as the author finishes it, begins to live its own life. Then, the author has no more control on it, and of course he as no control on how people will receive it. Of course, they can always speaks out loud their intentions and give directions to the public but I think it's much more honest to let each one of us to decide what we want the piece of art to mean. That's the point of art, to speak to our deepest feelings and personnality.
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