Would recommend: YES

I really loved this book. Andy Crouch's style is accessible and intellectual, and the whole book was food for thought. It was denser than I expected, so it took me longer to read it than I expected, but it was worth it. One of my biggest takeaways was the concept that it is more constructive to strive to be an artist (so to speak), rather than an art critic.

I wrote down a ton of lines as I read, and these are my favorites:

- "... we are to be creators and cultivators. Or, to put it more poetically, we are artists and gardeners."
- "The bigger the change we hope for, the longer we must be willing to invest, work, and wait for it."
- "Creativity is the only viable source of change."
- "...an essential part of the creative process is in fact the work of sorting, separating, and even excluding some alternatives in favor of others."
- "All true cultural creativity happens at the edges of the horizons of the possible, so by definition our most culturally creative endeavors have a high risk of failure."