Mental activity is a useful distraction from mental and emotional pain. If you find pleasure in thinking, and knowledge produces awareness of suffering, this can be a vicious feedback. Distract yourself w/ small pleasures and temporary certainty on occasion.
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Art is a rewarding mental activity that can help provide a nuanced understanding of the human conditionpic.twitter.com/UUXY6AW5KW
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Absolutely, but it is still a distraction or an indulgence it seems. One can create the most beautiful painting but one will still die and all his works will be dust.
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A distraction from what? Seems like examining the human condition is the only thing worth focusing on
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It seems your individual suffering. “By art alone we are able to step outside of our selves, to know what another sees of this universe which is not the same as our own, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.
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Through art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are offered up to us, each differing as widely from the next as those which roll round the infinite and which, be their name Rembrandt or Vermeer,
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send us their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished. The artist’s labor to discover a means of understanding that transcends matter and experience, indeed words, something different from their appearance, is of a nature counterposed
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to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life. - Marcel Proust
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