Art is effective because it is safe. You can read a novel and experience the horror of a prison or the beauty of deep love -- but you don't have to endure the real-world consequences of those things. You can shut the book. You can leave the gallery. You can stop dancing, close your eyes, exit the movie theatre. You can go away and you can get back to your life. But you can take with you some memory of the feelings you had and that can change you.
-- Brian Eno and Bette A., What Art Does, p. 35
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