What's the Purpose of Art?

[anicolai]

I'd like to ask people here what the use of art, of any form of art, is in their opinion.
We could also include what art is. How can we tell true art from non-art? Of course I know that everything is perfectly fine from a non-dualistic point of view but I'd love to know more from the everyday point of view, as this is the central topic of my last books whose English version is waiting to be proofread some time - if ever - by I don't know whom.
No advertisement of my works intended, just a bit of a personal context given to explain my questions.

I am so totally and completely biased so I cannot offer you a middle-of-the-road answer to this, but to me art is almost like wordless language...it can convey emotions and concepts without words, and it is received uniquely by each person who experiences it.

For the creator, it is the speaking of the wordless language...the pushing out of wordless emotions and concepts. Whether it is abstract or real, a painting or drawing or personal adornment, it makes a statement that may or may not be profound.

Art adds emotional "spice" to life.

Amy