The Cult of Mediocrity (opens in new tab)

Art once served as a ladder rather than a mirror. The greatest civilizations understood this instinctively. They built cathedrals that caused ordinary people to look upward in awe, composed music that stirred the soul toward transcendence, painted heroes, saints, kings, warriors, mothers, martyrs, and visionaries not because human beings had […] The post appeared first on <a href="