But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.

Deirdre Madden
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Until that moment, I had never really stopped to think about it. Why did people who could draw and paint get so excited about the work of art?

Source: Molly Foxs Birthday: A Novel

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