The romantic fascination artists have for sadness

The romantic fascination artists have always had for vast expanses of sadness on large drawing papers.

Can art end despondency?

Looking for good images is a time-waster.

Images make a better life

This picture may provide insights into the mystery of how art is embodied in the human brain.

Good life is based on art. Images making a better life are evocative of power, motion and bursting energy.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Spinoza

Boundless pride is not paradigmatic enough. If a despondency lasts for a long time, it's a melancholic affection.

Hippocrates, Aphorisms; What worries you masters you ("sloth" even as a living metaphor).