In the quote "The love of beauty is taste, the creation of beauty is art.” Ralph Waldo Emerson paints clearly the idea that without art the world lacks beauty, and when you erase beauty from the world you elimate human potential. Picture walking into a room with grey tightly knitted carpeted floors, grey and barren walls, no windows, no pictures, no plants, a bare bulb hanging from a silver wire attached to white ceiling. How do you feel? Inspired perhaps? I doubt that. It takes a touch of color, a creative image, a piece of nature, a touch of passion -of beauty- to really inspire someone.

The world needs beauty to keep people perplexed, to keep them wanting to reach their full potential. Depriving the world of beauty would eventually bring about the downfall of hope and creativiy that's vital to keeping people feeling as if their life is worth living.

During the Great Depression, a time marked for hopelessness, and destitution, Roosevelt not only initiated programs to help aid the umemployed, he sponsored programs to create art in public areas, to make America prettier. Giving people hope was the greatest achievement of his presidency, and beauty greatly aided the attitude of the american people.

Being an artist has made me see the world differently from others. It has made me realize how the incorporation of art in society is an incredibly important asset in the success of the human race. It's vital to achieve happiness, and the most important component in promoting creativity.