What's the Purpose of Art?

[ronaldhcard]

[...] 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.

Ebe, Perception, perception, perception. All time, in actuality, is simultaneous. The so-called, past, the present and the future, the probable futures, all exist simultaneously, in the present moment. Perception changes with every thought. Thus, the personalities point of power as well as perception is in the present, it is always the present, therefore, clarity of perception is in the mind of the perceiver. Mirrors...want to see what god looks like...just look in the mirror, and be sure that it is impeccably clean. -- ron.