“It’s said that art can heal, whether it’s fiction, poetry, music, painting, theatre or some other happy obsession. People for whom art matters tend to agree. However cynical we are, on some level we imagine that a Schubert quartet or a Chekhov story or an afternoon looking at Renaissance painting will improve us. We’ll be more serene, and with luck we’ll be intellectually broader. And in some way, art will elevate us morally. Art is made, after all, by superior creatures.” But is it true? – National Post (Canada)