“Why do people look at pictures? » my younger brother asked me naively. Looking into his big blue eyes, desperately searching for an answer, I found myself stunned by how these four simple words, arranged in this specific order, carried such deep philosophical baggage. Unable to come up with a clear answer, I mumbled, “It’s complicated.” » My answer troubled me more than the question itself. I was not prepared to accept the fact that I could not answer such a fundamental yet complex question posed by a seven-year-old child. In trying to find order in a sea of ​​thoughts and theories, I drew on my own experiences, reaching back to moments I had witnessed in films, paintings, sculptures and poems that m have changed forever. I almost immediately went back to my visit to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art over a year ago, where I came across a cast sugar sculpture of a woman. Keeping her hands clenched at the sides of her body and her head bowed, she did not dare look at the visitors. From a distance, the sculpture, the woman, whose body was covered in various colors, appeared calm. However, as I got closer, new nuances appeared. The new colors were not attractive at all. These red and dark brown bloody patterns, which looked like wounds, were delicately hidden between the peach-orange, yellow and green hues seen from afar. I was mystified by the sculpture and couldn't take my eyes off it. Inspecting the intricacies of the figure, I almost had the impression that she wanted to speak to me, to tell me something and even though the woman had been chained to the infinite silence of an art object, she managed to utter the words. Standing face to face, our eyes met for the first time and I was suddenly flooded by a painting...... middle of paper...... how people, with their kind participation , search their souls for new revelations about who they are and how they behave in this world. That’s why we value it so highly or can’t take our eyes off it. We look at images not only because we appreciate the aesthetic and technical feats performed by artists, but also because we want to explore them beyond the layers of paint and they explore us in return. Works Cited Doty, Mark. “Art objects”. Writing the essay: art in the world, the world through art. Ed. Darlene A. Forrest, Benjamin W. Stewart and Randy Martin New York: McGrew Hill, 2013. 39. Print. Landau, Sigalit. Big crust. 2001. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Winterson, Jeanette. “Art objects”. Writing the essay: art in the world, the world through art. Ed. Darlene A. Forrest, Benjamin W. Stewart, and Randy Martin New York: McGrew Hill, 2013. 71-77. Print.