Empathy And Knowledge In An Excerpt From Letters To A Young Artist

Empathy and knowledge is an important characteristic in artists. In the excerpt from Letters To A Young Artist it shows how the author thinks and how they should use art to speak on how they think and their outside knowledge. The author continues explaining on writing and being an author, showing along the way how empathy and knowledge work into it.
Empathy is needed in an artist because it helps them understand what they are trying to say in their painting and how it is important. Critics may say empathy is not needed because they don’t need to relate to what they’re painting and how it can relate to other people. In the excerpt the author supports this by writing, “Empathy is more useful and more important. It requires more rigor. The rigor makes you stronger of heart and spirit.” The author says this which shows how empathy will help relate and how it takes effort and knowledge of the other things. …show more content…
Knowledge is necessary to showing others what they know and how they learned things from life. Critics may think knowledge isn’t needed because artists paint what they want and it doesn’t matter on how it affects other people. Critics may think knowledge isn’t needed because artists paint what they want and it doesn’t matter on how it affects other people. “Stepping outside gives you space to watch, listen, and feel. To step outside, you must suspend opinions and judgments.” The author shows how outside knowledge you learn help go towards the painting depending on the views of everything and how it relates to people. The knowledge helps the art relate to more than one person and can help it be spread