The Healing Potential of Art

<p>Early in his career, Jean-Jacques Rousseau won an Acad&eacute;mie de Dijon prize for&nbsp;<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001shFgQKllxODjnAwmIhmJQ0WJKW5Lm5VSL6rL_dQp20P4FcDJph7FimfA6dtf_mP4fden1vE4ys8GNYMbSm6OtEW3yHma80VMxOD6yOXemyPnW2wV7xmVe-FmP98GJ50PA4OleOtSxdi4szxFLBdA7QJyDcmSs7R1dhhZoU_LXn2W0_oDDNEBN1fKbc4UcxD9YKkf_LuR1pE%3D&amp;c=GgDhOvI9pgE670rGBm-K2I3iIrpG9N9rdeBjYrqrKrsqqFsKmWvdXA%3D%3D&amp;ch=OKxn446a2eNNhBG-i8ruztDh4ypkcPnw3pv5qQe7tpEoHthUnPBSxw%3D%3D" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>an essay</strong></a>&nbsp;he wrote about the contributions of art to the morals of society. In it he said that the arts of civilized societies serve only to &ldquo;cast garlands of flowers over the chains men bore.&rdquo;</p> <p>So much of our art has become pretty: it seems that all we look for, and so often all we are given, are the flowers. But it has not freed us from our chains.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/change-your-mind/the-healing-potential-of-art-be7b76f889a7"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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