The normal method of organization, in minds of this kind, is a method which tends to deny the substance of feelings, to dismiss them as \u2018subjective\u2019 and therefore likely to obscure or hinder the ordinary march of thought. If the mind is a \u2018machine for thinking\u2019, then feeling, in the ordinary sense, is irrelevant to its operations. Yet the \u2018machine for thinking\u2019 inhabits a whole personality, which is subject, as in [John Stuart] Mill\u2019s case, to complex stresses, and even to breakdown. Observing this situation, a mind organized in such a way conceives the need for an additional \u2018department\u2019, a special reserve area in which feeling can be tended and organized. It supposes, immediately, that such a \u2018department\u2019 exists in poetry and art, and it considers that recourse to this reserve area is in fact an \u2018enlargement\u2019 of the mind. Such a disposition has become characteristic, and both the practice and the appreciation of art have suffered from art being thus treated as a saving clause in a bad treaty.\n
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (via frankfurtschooldropout)
\n\nSo art is humanity’s tailings pond. And such pretty colors!
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