Most of us regard art as mere decoration.
We don’t admit that, of course, especially not among the beautiful people we may jostle against in our leisure hours.
We might knowingly quote the end of Rainer Maria Rilke’s searing poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo”—"You must change your life”—but our quotidian actions broadcast the fact that we don't, most of us, most of the time, believe it.
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