Why would art impact the stories we live? Humans use arts—such as painting and sculpture—to freeze the experience of time encountered in narrative and in life: Experience is molded . . . by narrative forms, and its narrative quality is altogether primitive . . . [But] there seems to be a powerful inner drive of thought and imagination to overcome the relentless temporality of experience . . . The kind of pure spatial articulation we find in painting and sculpture, with all movement suspended, gratifies this deep need.152
