"What I refer to as beauty, the source of which is the experience of trauma and pain as well as, without contradiction, of joy, signals an encounter with the horrible that we are trying to avoid...There is no real beauty without compassion; art humanizes the shock and transforms trauma as you realize the impossibility to not-share your psychic, mental and physical space."
--"Art in a Time of Atrocity" by Brad Evens, the New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/opinion/art-in-a-time-of-atrocity.html?_r=0)
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