What do you think about art ?

Do you think art can improve the world, and change the world for the better ?

Or do you think that's another unnecessary pursue that only leads to distraction from the truth ? Another point of reference between you and I, replacing direct connection.

That's an issue that I am battling in my head for as long as I remember myself creating art. And what I do about it, and my type of solution around that so far, is taking long breaks from it and from what I think of as unnecessary creating. (...)

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DDonde · 31-35, M

I think it's a human thing, part of the human experience. It's something that we, as animals, do. Art is always worth doing because it enriches our lives. It is not in competition with truth or communication.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@DDonde great point. we went into a cave in Spain in which there were wall paintings 40K years old! humans needed to paint probably even further back than that.