How Proust Can Change Your Life — Part 4

How To Open Your Eyes

Proust took a young friend to see the paintings of Jean-BaptisteChardin in order to teach him to appreciate the beauty around him.
Chardin painted still-lifes of fruit, meat and kitchen utensils.

His point being to prove that art can be made anywhere, because beauty is everywhere (even in the mundane). Thisreminds me of the plastic bag scene in the movie American Beauty.

Botton:

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeut...