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Art may not be essential to our day-to-day survival, but it will be in the long run to the survival of society and culture
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There is an old anecdote on the Facebook page Overheard In The Newsroom, in which a staff writer asks an assistant editor: "Do we need art?"
"Is this an existential question?" the assistant editor replies. "I mean, I guess we could get by without it, but life would suck. We're not robots."
