How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive. And if it doesn’t do that it ain’t art."
- Milton Glaser, first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts
So agree! I like to look at Eyvind Earle's work for precisely such reason at this time of year -
it trains my eye and enhances my appreciation of our own yard:
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