“Art is the necessity invented to cope with the ones that are unavoidable, but not always obtainable. If we admit that the need for sex, water, food, clothing, shelter, and some form of medicine was there from the beginning and that not having any one of these for any length of time still affects how long a person will survive, I think it is likely that for as long as people have been able to make faces, clap their hands together, dance, act out what they saw, blow soot over their hand onto a cave wall, or tell stories, we have always had ways of taking our mind off the fact that we are thirsty, hungry, cold, have nowhere to stay, are suffering from a toothache, or desperate for sexual contact. So, art is a basic need, because without it life would continue, but in a way unimaginable to us.