Art
Art is a distraction, albeit a high-brow distraction; it allows the few to forget about their sins as they browse a white room, a container for artifacts.
Good art is a spontaneous impetuous that inspires, even if for a very brief moment.
Bad art shall be ignored.
Music is also a distraction but because invisible and completely portable (it resides in a remote part of the body, between the mind and the stomach), it is more valuable, more generous. It is, in fact, inevitable.
Painting is a primitive expression that is loosing its place in our increasingly virtual reality.
Photography is the need of the mind to confirm its existence by recording it and sharing it.
Sculpting has turned into Film & Television.
Writing comes first, as books can, and indeed do, change lives. When the mind reads, the mind instructs itself, becoming one. Writing is as necessary as it is mandatory; everything else is superfluous.
“… and the Word was God.” – John 1:1