Declaration of Art

I value creativity and uniqueness.  It's something I've always liked.  Why do I value this?  I'm not sure.  Something about art and the like has always seemed to draw me in.  I don't like sports and business and all that monotonous stuff that doesn't really add to anything.  It doesn't expand, it doesn't grow; it stays the same.  In 20 years, people will still be making the same comments about football or still be talking about the same business ethics.  When it comes to art, though, something will have indeed changed.  No one will be referencing Twilight as a classic of literature (I hope to God they won't, at least...), they'll be talking about the newest book, the newest movie, the latest band.

Art seems to have a broad type of hold on society.  It can be timeless, while at the same time always changing.  We still reference Moby Dick and The Odyssey, yet also talk about the latest craze in everything else.  The classics are unforgettable, yet the changes are constant.  It's hard to believe in certain things of our time becoming classics of literature or film history, later on.  Who knows if Kanye West will indeed become the next King of Pop?*  The Twilight films and book could become the Nosferatu's and Dracula's of a later generation.**  It's unpredictable.

Art isn't something that can be calculated, it cannot be estimated.  It just is, and it won't be anything else.  It's just like how sports will always be sports, sure the games could change, but the physical activity used for a greater purpose of teamwork and victory will always remain.  Regardless of whether or not film or digital media will still exist in the next 100 years (who knows where the human race will take us on the road to armageddon), art will never be any different from what it always has been.

*Hell no, he won't.
**For the love of all that is holy, NO.