The West must stop sowing the seeds of its own destruction. If you can imaginatively enter into another person's life, you cannot hate and wound that person. You know what it is like to be them. They are not Other. They are the Same.
Art allows that imaginative connection with people and situations outside our own.
Art gives us more than mental understanding or generalised sympathy - it shows us another's pain, another's struggle. It joins life together where hatred would sever it. Never let anyone tell you that art is a luxury. Sometimes I think art is our only chance. And art is about love - love of making, love of creating, bringing into being, rather than destroying.