What's the Purpose of Art?

[Ebe]

[...] Say, in actuality, there's no place to wander too...you're already there. -- Ronald H. Card, a non-religious spiritual philosophy teacher on Facebook.

Let me disagree on this point. We may be already "there" but what we convey depends on how clear our perception of that is. As the great mezzo Dame Janet Baker used (more or less) to say, "we (artists) have to keep our mirror impeccably clean". In my opinion this is the difference between art and self-expression. But, of course, I may be wrong.