“What Is Art For?”

Even though the article I’ll feature today focuses on the art of painting, it’s easy to see its argument as applicable to writing.

So, an appropriate subtitle for this post could be “What Is Writing For?”.

I went searching my past posts for something that might echo some of the sentiments of today’s article and found six posts that revolve around the social responsibility of the writer (and, by extension, the responsibilities of any artist.).

I’m sure there will be a reader or two of this post w...