Value defines how light or dark a given color or hue can be. Values are best understood when visualized as a scale or gradient, from dark to light. The more tonal variants in an image, the lower the contrast. When shades of similar value are used together, they also create a low contrast image.

Expressing yourself through art can give you a light feeling of relief. It’s healthy and free. Creating artwork can help you cope with different emotions that may limit your productivity. It can also help reduce stress and depression.

Why are culture and the arts important? Most people who participate in art and cultural activities would say that these activities enhance the quality of their lives – they bring about personal enjoyment, enriching perspectives, intellectual stimulation, and opportunities for public involvement.

For Arthur Schopenhauer, aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the freest and most pure and truthful that intellect can be, and is therefore beautiful. Art is often intended to appeal to, and connect with, human emotion.

It is so important to cultivate beauty in your life because it exists as your closest physical connection to God. It aligns you with your true nature and that of your creator. It soothes the soul and makes you happy. True beauty brings so many rewards.

If anything, we regard humanity as pretty ugly. The idea of beauty was always about how much human beings valued their own humanity – about how beauty stood in for the optimism that everything could, eventually, be beautiful, or Good. But since we see the human world as an ugly place, beauty no longer matters in art.

In the presence of beautiful things, we feel a broad range of emotions, such as fascination, awe, feelings of transcendence, wonder, and admiration. Aesthetic emotions are experienced through vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell and cognitive processing in response to respected stimuli.

Art evokes emotions, whether they are happy or sad, disturbing or exciting. Art makes you feel, and art makes you think. Pieces of art can make you question not only the artist’s interpretation or message, but also your own feelings.