March- The Beauty of Simplicity

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, author, Oscar Wilde, says "all art is quite useless". By this, I definitely don't think Wilde meant that art is pointless, but technically it is useless. The point of art though is whatever use people find for it. Whether it be self expression, or relaxation, the art itself technically has no use but it does serve a purpose. Unfortunately I think that we live in a world where the innocence of something useless that is meant to be pure and beautiful, has been robbed from a lot of things. The world is so competitive that so many people see the need to give a use to something that doesn't need it. For example, if someone was really great at making jewelry or something, the first thing someone else might suggest is that they sell it. Even though the jewelry making was meant to be simply for enjoyment or relaxation, suddenly a use has been assigned to something that didn't really didn't need it, and all of the joyful innocence is taken from it. Everything today is so fast paced that it isn't often people decide to do something solely because they want to or it makes them happy, people try to give everything some kind of use, if not it's a waste of time. I really like Oscar Wilde's statement about art because it really is useless, which is the beauty of it. Art is expressive and fun and therapeutic and it doesn't need to be anything else. A painting isn't going to go out and cure the common cold or discover oil, but that in no way means that it is pointless. I agree with Oscar Wilde and I think that more people in the world need to accept the uselessness of certain things and appreciate the beauty of simplicity.