The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

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When John Ruskin said, “The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world,” he was speaking about how art is essential to life. Art is all around us, in places both big and small. It can be physical or it can be abstract. But it creates the world in which we live.

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