Art Gives Us Peace When Life Gets Loud

Art can feel like a luxury until you notice what happens when it disappears: the world gets flatter, louder, and harder to carry. We start with a simple question, why is art so important, and follow it into the real reasons people keep making and seeking out creative work across time. From classic paintings to modern design, art holds historical value, but it also holds something more personal: the ability to stop you in your tracks and make you feel again.

We talk about beauty you can’t ignore, including the kind you see in architecture, museums, and buildings that look impossible until they exist. Those creations aren’t just decoration, they’re evidence of imagination shaped by discipline. When you stare at a piece and wonder how it was made, you’re stepping into the artist’s decisions, impulses, and technique. That curiosity is part of the gift, because it pulls you out of routine and back into attention.

The conversation turns toward what art does for the mind. Life brings stress, pressure, pain, and constant chaos, so where is the release valve? For us, art is that valve, whether we’re looking at a piece and finding calm or taking a vision in our head and turning it into something real. We also break down the building blocks behind the work: talent, learned skill built over years, and the sense of God-given ability that some creators feel, all pointed toward one purpose, making original creations that have never been seen before.

If you’ve ever felt restored by a painting, inspired by a building, or compelled to make something with your own hands, you’ll feel at home here. Subscribe for more conversations like this, share the episode with a creative friend, and leave a review telling us what artwork brings you peace.

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Artist: David Bornancin

Media: Acrylic Paintings

Style: Abstracts and Landscapes

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Transcript

Why Art Feels Essential

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Why is art so important? And that's a it's a really good question. Why is art so important? And I think, you know, if you bring down the tone, if you bring down the levels, if you bring down the sound, and you talk about pure art and historical value would be all the wonderful art that was done a hundred years ago and all the way up to now. And the beautiful pieces and the beautiful paintings and the beautiful artwork and the beautiful designs that were done were truly incredible. And then you look at the architecture, and you look at these unbelievable buildings and museums and creations that were done by architects, and they designed these incredible buildings that that no one has ever seen before. And you know, why why is that so important? And I think you know, with with everything that goes on in everybody's life, you know, what is what is the release valve? You know, where is the valve that you turn off to release all the stress and the pressures and the pain and this and the and the amountable you know craziness that goes on in the in the world around us? You know, where where do you what do you turn to? What is it that you turn to? And for me, it's always been you know the vision that I have in my head, and being able to take that vision and the images and then put that to real work, real pieces, real designs, real creations, real imaging, real concepts, and real techniques, uh, and valuable techniques in the in the way you design abstract and then the way you can bend and turn landscape in all the landscape designs. And so, you know, what is it that we we need to do? What is it that that drives and and and compels us to seek out this wonderful artwork and why is it so important? Because I think in in some degree it brings such peace and calmness and passion and excitement and and the thoughts that you have when you see a piece and you're interpreting how the hell was that created, and how what was the painter thinking when they designed it, and what was the you know impulsiveness of the way he drove he or she drove the paint and the paintbrushes across the canvas and different you know media, and I think I think you know that speaks for itself, and I think it tells the story of why art and artwork is so important to the world around us, you know, the abilities. I've always said this: I have talents and I have learned skills. Talents and learned skills over a massive amount of time. You don't get these incredible talents and skills in five days, it's over a massive amount of time, but then I've got God-given skills. So, God-given skills plus my talents, plus my learned skills. And what is it? What's the purpose? The purpose is to take all that and design creations that have never been seen before, the one of a kinds, the the originals, the the bizarre to depot to expressionism to realism, to you know, masking of traditional with modern and and brazing it around surreal.