"It seems to me now, with greater reflection, that the value of experiencing another person's art is not merely the work itself, but the opportunity it presents to connect with the interior impulse of another. The arts occupy a vanishing space in modern life: They offer one of the last lingering places to seek out empathy for its own sake, and to the extent that an artist's work is frustrating or difficult or awful, you could say this allows greater opportunity to try to meet it. I am not saying there is no room for discriminating taste and judgement, just that there is also, I think, this other portal through which to experience creative work and to access a different kind of beauty, which might be called communion."
–– Wil S. Hylton, American journalist
Source: T: The NY Times Style Magazine via: Sarah Boyts Yoder Instagram, 2016
via: Sketchbook 29, 2016, p. 73.
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