Art is empathy.

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I’m currently reading My Friends by Fredrik Backman, and can’t stop thinking about one of the many beautiful and profound lines he has included in this book, which is located on page thirteen: Art is empathy.

Thousands of articles and papers and books and poems and symposiums and stories (you name it) have been written about art and what it is over the c…