"The idea that you can’t paint because the world is ‘made of war and cruelty’ has to be the lamest and most faint-hearted excuse not to work I have ever heard, Dan. How will painting a fucking picture help?"
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ever-felt-alien-to-yourself/
@neauoire i don't buy the argument equating the the artist(whatever that is) and the doctor. Nor do I believe we should reify these roles and values. As a young Canadian artist (cough) many moons ago, I soon realised I was not interested in that economy. And so, art is my private refuge, and service something that takes many forms. Rarely are service and 'work', economical, the same. And something about Adorno.