We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Ray Bradbury
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The arts are the best way to teach us how to breathe. We need our arts to teach us how to breathe. When we are born, we have no idea what the world is all about. We see our parents and other adults around us but they can’t explain things to us.

We are so helpless. To be able to learn how to breathe, we have to have an art teacher who can explain things to us in a language that we understand. The arts are the best way for us to learn how to breathe.

Source: Zen In The Art Of Writing

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