A way of being happy...

[sawyl]

AL Kennedy has a particularly good piece in defence of arts funding over on the Guardian Books site:

Good art stops being art — it becomes a way of being happy, of receiving something beautiful and human from stranger, of confirming one's identity, of being not alone. This is the average end-product of a good-quality and satisfying job in the arts sector of British industry. Why would I be a tosser for defending this?