Art is empathy. No?

Do you agree that art is empathy? Keep reading, then leave a comment to join this dialogue. And don’t forget to check out today’s writing prompt at the bottom of this post. [Ed. from the Archive.]

I’m still thinking about one of the many beautiful and profound lines Fredrik Backman included in My Friends, 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 centuries. But in all the years I have spent stud…