monet and goosebumps

what's great art? one that gives you goosebumps. nothing less. nothing more.

i saw monet's water lilies in musee l'orangerie with goosebumps.
i knew nothing about monet then.
i didnt know he painted waterlilies.
i went and saw the egg shaped gallery with three huge paintings.
huge. i went close. i went far. i felt nothing.

then i stood in the place where yolk stands.
and i saw it. endless.

i was standing in the middle of a lake.
it was lake, lake and only lake. right till the horizon.
weeping willows and water lilies, everywhere.

i was standing in the lake.
goosebumps.

i will never forget the goosebumps.
i can not state why i got goosebumps.
was it a discovery, a feeling or something else that triggered them.

i just remember them.
that day i felt what art can do.

without any reason or logic, without any barrier art can take you away.

no defence works then.
no comprehension, no language, no interpretation.

any anything less than that, is not art.
what is incapable of giving me goosebumps, is not art.
goosebumps to me, because i can't fake them.

(was trying to find a photograph / video with them : but that will be such a let down.
go and see it.)