Art should be provocative in its own right, able to make people see their reality through a different perspective, by raising their level of intellectuality and aesthetics. Otherwise, there is no Art, it’s dead.
A few years ago, when the motto was “life is too short to be sad, baby”, he was singing something along the lines of “life’s long, don’t turn it into a circus”. Now, in the midst of economic crisis, Yiannis Aggelakas makes a strange wish for Greece.
“I will never be alone, worst case I’ll be with God”, this Henry Miller’s quote sticked with me since I was a teenager. I always go through life with friends and, to me, friends are those who gaze together at that same spot on the horizon and joyously stumble towards it.