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It has been said that professions such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants are necessities for us to live, but the artist and their work give us a <em>reason</em> to live. I’m sure that my paraphrase came from some prominent intellectual, but nonetheless, art has a significant influence on our lives. Although most of us are consumers of art, it is the producer of it who bears the burden of creating something novel and that evokes emotion in their audience.