@kmdn1
Back when I was a freshman in college at art school, getting ready to study painting as my major, I reconnected with an old friend from middle school. He was telling me he just began studying the sciences, chemistry and biology, saying he hoped to become a doctor in the end and "ya know, 'cure cancer' and whatnot." I responded humbly "here I am studying painting pretty pictures and you're doing something really useful and noble- aiming to save people's lives." What he responded has always stuck with me and is a great metaphor for what Peterson is saying here. He said "if it weren't for art, there would be no reason to cure cancer." You can keep humans living but it is art that gives value to human life.
@echopeakbicycling85
Ive had years of college level art education and you rarely hear the purpose and meaning of art articulated so precisely.
@Roan7995
"...because life is too tragic in the absence of the sublime." I'm putting that on my wall.
@Armaan8014
Art also transforms tragedy into beauty
@TheJavaMonkey
I don't think I've ever heard the function, utility and necessity of art so cogently, concisely, and intelligently articulated before.
@dookie_12
I love free thinking
@selfelements8037
"A real piece of art is a window into the domain of the transcendent."
@loopyfoodable
As a college student who is constantly doubted for the practicality of my liberal arts degree, this talk was very reassuring to hear and encourages me to continue pursuing what I love
@osakadaiyoh
Art is like a letter I write for my relatives so they may read. A letter that can capture a memory, an emotion, a simple drawing that contains a lot of thoughts as much as a book, a simple music that speaks more than a whole day conversation in a meeting.
@ariapearl7059
Thank you Jordan Peterson, this helped me. I'm an artist and I've been dealing with insecurities around the value of art and the value of my art.
@Rachel_M_
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” (Ernst Fischer)
@SeraphimGoose
Jordan Peterson is Jungian to the core. His ability to describe how the inner images and archetypes of the collective unconscious manifest themselves in our individual & collective behavior is phenomenal.
@jebbush3130
I love the way Jordan Peterson thinks
@victoriabutanu5400
it's amazing to see when he's searching for words in this one, unlike when he discusses more concrete matters, here one can feel how overwhelmed with pure awe he is, his soul is vibrating in the higher octave and it's like he understands that words cannot even come close to expressing his deep humility in the face of great art, like he would rather disolve into a hymn or dance or something
@Kanelkakan
I've had years and years of college-level art education and you rarely hear ANYTHING this inspiring and clear-cut coming out of academia. I have not felt so alive and also affected on a deeper level by anything in quite some time. This video was a true vivifier, energizer, revitalizer.
@JoeyJ1984
Jordan Peterson is Dragon Energy
@jcgm90
This is absolutely beautiful. I want to be like him when I grow up... wait, I'm already growing up... oh well, time to buckle up, sort myself out and get my act together
@superevan07
"...life is too tragic and dismal in the absence of the sublime." I love that.
@akallstar5
I've never been captivated by any EVER. Never TRULY captivated. Many people in recent times have been impressively smart and enlightening: David Chalmers, Sam Harris, Chris Hitchens, Dan Dennett etc... But have captured the human spirit and condition, been able to analyze it and attack it from ALL angles, and then articulate it so beautifully, genuinely, and clearly... on the fly. I love this man. I'm captivated.
@PhilosophyInsights