The Evil of Banality

Jerry Orter
January 2016

“If we take man as he is,

We make him worse.

But, if we take man as he should be,

We make him capable of becoming

What he can be.”

Johan Wolfgang Van Goethe

When we encounter a work of art based on banality,
what do we come away with?
When art promotes banality,
art is degraded and we are made worse.