Monday, November 10, 2003
This line from my english teacher's lecture notes is really beautiful:
"If the important thing about handling pain is not giving it merely human meaning but finding a way to see it as part of the real, then art is the major resource because it simply rearranges what we know in ways that seek comprehensiveness rather than discursive comprehension."
Why do we instinctively turn to music, art and literature? The human soul finds solace in art because it redefines reality for us. Maybe that's just a nice way of saying art helps us run away from our hurt and pain. But at the end of the day, who cares? If we use beauty as an escape, to override rationality, that's just another good reason to appreciate beauty. The artist calls: drown in art one day and emerge soaked in new life. How can we not respond to such a cry?
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"If the important thing about handling pain is not giving it merely human meaning but finding a way to see it as part of the real, then art is the major resource because it simply rearranges what we know in ways that seek comprehensiveness rather than discursive comprehension."
Why do we instinctively turn to music, art and literature? The human soul finds solace in art because it redefines reality for us. Maybe that's just a nice way of saying art helps us run away from our hurt and pain. But at the end of the day, who cares? If we use beauty as an escape, to override rationality, that's just another good reason to appreciate beauty. The artist calls: drown in art one day and emerge soaked in new life. How can we not respond to such a cry?
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