Art is not a luxury

Thanks LitHub for reminding me of this beautiful and earnest TED (discussion? less than a talk) with Ethan Hawke about art and the creative process:

“Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right, they have a life to live and they’re not really that concerned with Allen Ginsburg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until their father dies, they go to a funeral, you lose a child, someone breaks your heart, and all of a sudden you’re desperate for making sense out of this life and has anyone ever felt this bad? How did they come out of this cloud? Or the inverse … you love someone so much you can’t see straight… what’s happening to me? And that’s when art’s not a luxury—it’s actually sustenance.”

An amazing reminder when some of the world’s most impressive artists are on strike—and the rest are fighting not to have their work stolen by AI.