URGENT: Create, not destroy

"Cultivation of the arts is an education of the sensibilities, and if we are not given an education of this kind, if our hands remain empty and our perception of form is unexercised, then in idleness and vacancy we revert to violence and crime. When there is no will to creation the death instinct takes over and wills endless, gratuitous destruction.” —Sir Herbert Read
[Therapy through the arts] 

A lot of people hunger for something important to do. Lots of them seek to find meaning. Many, however, are not aware of this need. So what is so important that needs to be done? The answer stems back to the Story of Creation. It is unsurprising, therefore, that by nature man was designed to create and not to destroy. And without a sense for creation, man would revert to destruction. So, in a way, the solution to crime and all the chaos there are, is for man to be reminded that he must create, be inspired by beauty and all that is holy and sacred.

A self-portrait by Australian death-row prisoner Myuran Sukumaran

"The creativity of these paintings is the creativity of life itself: a glimpse of the richness and unpredictability of every human life. To extinguish the life that made these paintings is to cut short someone capable of beauty, passion – all the things we are all capable of. That is not “justice”. It is murder."             [Photo & quote from The Guardian]

P.S. Suggested books by our humanities teacher, sir Jun.