Why You Should Date an Artist

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“What can you expect from civilians? They can’t understand. They see an unremittingly sad film, and they think it’s depressing, whereas we’re fucking enthralled, because the catharsis for us is in witnessing great art, seeing the undiluted truth, in the shared recognition that life is pain. You need to go out with an artist.”

—from The Collective by Don Lee

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Personal experience confirms this (just the bit about artists, not the dating) but especially one person I know, who seems to actually physically revel in good art, like gets all riled up with flailing arm gestures and flashing eyes etc.

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