The Role of Art and Literature

If you can read and think and communicate, you are absolutely one hundred per cent unstoppable. There's nothing more economically valuable than teaching people how to articulate themselves and communicate. And so we need to understand the role of art and literature and stop thinking about it as an option. It's not an option. What is it said? Man does not live by bread alone. We live by beauty. We live by literature. Life is too dismaland and tragic in the absence of the sublime. So and ourselves, we have to be sharp so that we can survive properly and orient the world properly"...