Ett återkommande inslag på denna blogg är förevisning av konst jag tycker om. Arthur Schopenhauer förklarar varför sådan förevisning är viktig, i Studies on Pessimism:

In a field of ripening corn I came to a place which had been trampled down by some ruthless foot; and as I glanced amongst the countless stalks, every one of them alike, standing there so erect and bearing the full weight of the ear, I saw a multitude of different flowers, red and blue and violet. How pretty they looked as they grew there so naturally with their little foliage! But, thought I, they are quite useless; they bear no fruit; they are mere weeds, suffered to remain only because there is no getting rid of them. And yet, but for these flowers, there would be nothing to charm the eye in that wilderness of stalks. They are emblematic of poetry and art, which, in civic life—so severe, but still useful and not without its fruit—play the same part as flowers in the corn.

De nyttiga inslagen, om nationalekonomi, politik och filosofi, är helt enkelt corn stalks som behöver balanseras av pretty flowers. (Poesi är jag dock mindre förtjust i, med något undantag.)