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What is your opinion for having art? Answers are surprising, and very diverse. The answers vary from art s for fun and adventure; building bridges between artists  and the rest of humanity; reuniting and recording fragments of thought, feeling, and memory; and saying things that they can’t express in any other way.

  Ghost Rock Camp Fire by Robin Straub

All the answers are deeply personal. We can explore the possible cognitive and emotional benefits of the arts, and yet artists evoke a more fundamental benefit: They are just doing what they feel they’re born to do.

 Landscape Arch by Carolyn Tibbetts

Throughout history, much artwork was made for no other explicit purpose than the production of beauty. Artwork is to be beheld and admired. It is breathtaking and can even make us emotional. It is this beauty that we draw the first connection between nature and art. 

  King of the Mountain by Victoria Fugit

Nature and art are both beautiful, no matter how you define beauty. They both can dazzle us and hold us breathless. They can inspire us and make us feel connected to something. They both can strike an emotional nerve that leaves an impact on us that is not soon forgotten. Perhaps this connection between art and emotion reveals something about the origin of art.

 Along the River by Janet Buckingham

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. In his book "Mans Search for Meaning", he recounts the prisoners of Auschwitz using art, (poetry and singing),  to escape the abuse, even for a short time. 

  Blue Monuments by Jeffrey Durrant

"As the inner life of the prisoner tended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before. Under their influence he sometimes even forgot his own frightful circumstances. If someone had seen our faces on the journey from Auschwitz to a Bavarian camp as we beheld the mountains of Salzburg with their summits glowing in the sunset, through the little barred windows of the prison carriage, he would never have believed that those were the faces of men who had given up all hope of life and liberty. Despite that factor--or maybe because of it--we were carried away by nature's beauty, which we had missed for so long." - Viktor Frankl

People don't tend to truly understand the value of things until they can actually relate them to their everyday lives. It's all about experiences and how much we value them, isn't it?