art

Deliberately creating something new that inspires aesthetic or emotional response.

Complementary virtues

Contrasting vices

TBD

Virtues possibly in tension

TBD

How to acquire or strengthen it

TBD

Notes and links

  • James Clear: make more art
  • LessWrong: Art
  • R. Swindells, et al. “Eudaimonic well-being and community arts participation” Perspectives in Public Health (2013) pp. 60-65
  • F. Reynolds & K.H. Lim “Turning to art as a positive way of living with cancer: A qualitative study of personal motives and contextual influences” The Journal of Positive Psychology (2007) pp. 66-75
  • R.R. Pratt “Art, dance, and music therapy” Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America (2004) pp. 827-842
  • A. Renton, et al. “Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors, and mental well-being in deprived communities in London” Public Health (2012) pp. S57-S64
  • R. Ruud “Music in therapy: Increasing possibilities for action” Music and Arts in Action (2008) pp. 46-60
  • S. Trainor, et al. “Leisure activities and adolescent psychological well-being” _Journal of Adolescence" (2010) pp. 173-186 — making music correlated with psychological health in youth
  • T. Hays & V. Minichiello “The meaning of music in the lives of older people: A qualitative study” Psychology of Music (2005) pp. 437-451 — and in older adults too

Mentioned elsewhere

Inspirational quotes

  • “art…. has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival” ―C.S. Lewis
  • “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ―Pablo Picasso
  • “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ―Pablo Picasso