Art Manifest by Rebecca Russo (2010) 

Art is life. Art is care.  Art promotes wellbeing of the body and psyche. It’s energy, source, urgency, power. It belongs to human nature and expresses primary, essential and universal needs. It’s love and belongs to everyone. It is ageless, powerful. It communicates fundamental messages. It’s symbol, metaphor, proof and code. It is real action and unique, unrepeatable performance within time and space. It’s history, adventure, experimentation and revolution. It’s aspiration, narration, reinterpretation, rewriting of life. It’s unsolved, elusive, limitless mystery. Art doesn’t offer the truth, but suggests paths of interpretation. It’s creation, expression, catharsis, fantasy and dream. It exorcises fears and reveals secrets. It contains beauty and awareness. It turns the unconscious on its head. Art is circular, immortal and rooted in the depths; it makes fly high and reveals resources and vulnerabilities. Art is a gift: to give, take and receive, restore and exchange. It’s relational: connects and creates bridges, touches the body, mind, heart and soul. It’s sensation, perception, emotion, desire and memory, sharing feelings, pure contagion. Art moves, warms and nurtures. It is a mirror which reflects the most intimate part of the observer, like a Rorschach inkblot. Art is revelation, repetition, meditation, prophecy. It predicts the future, makes travel, opens new horizons, pushes towards the frontiers of the unknown. It takes into the inner world, penetrates the unconscious rapidly, draws outwards through projection and elaboration. It changes distances and points of view, breaks rigid schemes, overturns prejudices. Art lowers resistance and defences, promotes differences, suspends between possibilities, provokes, perturbs, regenerates, charges and transmits vital determination, stimulates evolution, promotes change. Art brings progress, transforms, moves, releases, develops and gives lightness. It guides action and decision. It is culture, learning. It unites people. Art  consoles, compensates, prevents disease. It’s chance, revolution, insight, awareness, inner vision, intuition, discovery that causes evolution and activation of resources.