The longer my days are filled with work, study and responsibilities, the more I realise the importance of art.

Our lives can be difficult, draining and soul-crushingly mundane, and our world might seem a little less exciting. But this is where art, whose responsibility is to create feeling, provides its greatest role.

Art, in the form of books, music, movies and paintings and more, is a reminder of the beauty that exists around us, a beauty that is breathtaking, that drags us out of our little bubble, into new universes of possibility. The further we get bogged down in our little tasks, the more crucial it is an antidote to apathy.