There are many things in life you and I may not understand. For some people, it’s modern art.

A young woman goes to her first show at an art gallery. She studies the paintings carefully. One is a huge canvas that has black with yellow blobs of paint splattered all over it. The next painting is a murky gray color that has drips of purple paint streaked across it. She walks over to the artist and says, “I don’t understand your paintings.”

“I paint what I feel inside me,” explains the artist.

She looks at the painting once more and asks, “Have you ever tried Alka-Seltzer?” (1)

Some of us may not understand modern art. Some of us may not understand some kinds of music. Opera, for example. Or some forms of rock music.

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