via … http://www.openculture.com/2016/06/how-to-look-at-art-a-short-visual-guide-by-cartoonist-lynda-barry.html

” …that’s what the arts do. In the course of human life we have a million phantom-limb pains—losing a parent when you’re little, being in a war, even something as dumb as having a mean teacher—and seeing it somehow reflected, whether it’s in our own work or listening to a song, is a way to deal with it.” -Linda Barry in The Paris Review