"While conducting a workshop in Panama City, FL. We had a lot of conversation about "art". This subject comes up frequently when artists get together. You will see many definitions but I feel that it has to be something achieved, a goal, the culmination of a craft, the result of hard work to learn composition, color harmony, perspective, human emotion put together in a satisfying way to please the eye and emotions of the viewer. It is not something that you can't understand. It is not over your head. It is nostalgia, satisfaction, desire, the future, and beauty. The greatest artists are normally the ones who have been at it the longest and for good reason."... Perry Âustin