The reason I talk so often about art in terms of the soul, or in terms of spirituality, is because art is an activity of humankind, and as such has the same relation to the soul as do any of our actions, although, because it involves a sort of heightened or intensified expression, compared to most other actions, and because its goal is to achieve some kind of lastingness or endurance, relative to most other actions, it makes of itself an exemplar of that relation, between activity and soul, insisting on that relation’s importance, refusing to allow us the lethargy that would describe existence as commonplace.