‘The question of what art is for has for too long been needlessly treated as obscure: it is to help us live and die.’
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Things are not as they are seen, nor are they otherwise
‘The question of what art is for has for too long been needlessly treated as obscure: it is to help us live and die.’
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sub rosa 
A timeless question…and de Botton supplies a worthy answer.
The photo is very exciting. Yours, I presume. I love it.
Oh – thank you! It’s from my recent trip to Italy, Lucca – to be more specific.
Photo even better for knowing it was taken in Italy.
🙂
Art is thus like pharmaceuticals. I knew it, I knew it!
🙂