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Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Address Art Been Beginning Century Come Feel Illegitimate Impatient Institutional Little Profound Public Question Quite Relationship Reluctance Since Unfairly Weakened 20Th Century

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I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Also Art Believe Better Functions How Important Know Like Think Tool Tools Use I Believe I Believe That

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In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Argue Art Comfort Console Expand Guide Help Inspire Redeem Therapy Tool Us

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The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Alarm Art Asked Bells Cheer Contend Cultural Egocentric Elite Empathetic Function Heart Idea Instrumental Make Might More Off Perform Person Pill Reasons Set Some Something Specific Tends Up Use Who You

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If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Art Associations Bring Buying Call Deeply Emotions Engage Matter Might Our Something Souls Supernatural Then Us Well Whatsoever

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Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Art Been Christian Clear Clearly Direct Function Good Had Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Meant Off Religions Score Towards Us Very Vice West Years

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The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

~Alain De Botton

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We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific pains and dilemmas of our psyches.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Art Aside Certain Dilemmas Historical Invite Order Our Pains Put Quite Reading Respond Specific Works

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Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.

~Alain De Botton

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I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Art Been Celebrity Come Enough Expect Expecting Give Like Live Lives Lucky Meaning Our Our Lives Parenting Sometimes Supposed Things Through You

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