"I Know What Love Is"

Last night I came across the most beautiful letter from Ansel Adams on the amazing site Letters of Note.

"Art is both love and friendship, and understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these."

Do yourself a favor and read the letter and its entirety, and perhaps spend the rest of your day perusing, at Letters Of Note.