Alain De BottonArt was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
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Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism. Art did not preach. It did not save souls. It did not try to save the world.
Art did not tell you what to do, and it did not tell you what not to do. Art did not try to impose a system of ethics on a society that had no moral system of its own. Its sole purpose was to make people feel, and maybe this is why art is so often misunderstood by people today.
To make people feel something. To make them tell themselves a story or dream of a different world or a better world, or sometimes just make them feel the way they felt when they were young, even if that feeling means nothing now.
Source: Status Anxiety
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