This is what a work of art can do. It can make you feel like it sees you, like it understands you, like it speaks directly to you and your experience. It pierces the fragile shell of the self, and you feel that on some fundamental level not only do you know that work but that work knows you; it comes from a place where your spirit is congruent with the spirit of its creator. We artists all need to know such works in our lives. They clarify our sense of purpose and remind us of why we create. We can go to them, as to a well, and never drink them dry: we resonate with the spirit that created
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