Jeannette Winterson on How Art and Storytelling Redeem Our Inner Lives

"Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in art is our interest in ourselves both now and always. Here and forever. There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our own death bearable. Life + art is a boisterous communion/communication with the dead. It is a boxing match with time."

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/06/01/jeanette-winterson-edinburgh-book-festival-art/