Many things make people think artists are weird.
But the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
It is somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did,Momento mori:remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.
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