Saturday's Quote

I don't know anything about American writer Cynthia Ozick, except that I really like this quote from her essay "The Demise of the Dancing Dog:"

"The methods of art are variegated, flexible, abstruse,
and often enough mysterious. But the burden of art is
obvious: here is the world, here are human beings,
here is childhood, here is struggle, here is hate, here is
old age, here is death. None of these is a fantasy, a
romance, or a sentiment, none is an imagining: all are
obvious. A culture that does not allow itself to look
clearly at the obvious through the universal accessibility
of art is a culture of tragic delusion, hardly living."