When asked why art matters, why it’s important, the English author, actor, television presenter, comedian and polymath Stephen Fry agrees with this writer’s suggestion that art is something numinous, something that transcends the everyday.
“The very essence of a thing, the absolute truth of it, is something so hard to capture, and art is the only way to do it, because a photograph doesn’t in any way get you the emotional reality of what a thing is,” he explains.
