What is the purpose of art?

i don't have an amazing quote for it, but my two-penny's worth:

my meaning of art is life. so my meaning of art and life is getting the most out of it. the most i can get out of it is spreading good vibes, having good fun and making good music. that's why i'm gonna spend my life on a road trip spreading peace with my friends, busking to make small cash for petrol and food.
i hate making people unhappy, but people must be made unhappy at times to balance it out. if someone stabs one of my friends, they get stabbed back. that ain't the best vibes, but if you teach someone what bad can come of stabbing someone, they'll be a bit more reluctant in future
my life is art. mainly in the form of music and peace

 

i'm going to be an art therapist. ahha. that's all i have to say to you foine foine folks!

 

uh......

 

ahhaa good answer.

 

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."

Oscar Wilde in Picture of Dorian Gray's preface.
There's a longer text about his opinion on arts in this preface, but these are key sentences. (http://www.upword.com/wilde/dorgrayp.html - if you're interested)

My opinion?
Purpose of art? All art is actually really quite useless, but not pointless. Its point is for men to relax/enjoy and/or to spread ideas.

The purpose of living? Now, I could start an essay, but let's not get there. There's no such thing as a purpose of living - it's all in our cultural dogmatic heads. However, the most moral and ethyical is to be good and in accordance with virtues, thus you make some progress for mankind, too.
However, the question such as the purpose of living is too basical for replies (let's see - there are many books written on this subject and yes, it's not impossible to write a book on the subject - see, there are many philosophy books on this subject and dozens of new age and hippie trippie spam ham books, too).

My opinion,
Borut

 

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You will never know how ironic that response was.

 

what response?
yours or mine?

 

Yours.

Orange juice.

Fuck.

 

ooh

i like orange juice..

 

I.



Fucking.




Hate.



Fucking.



Orange.



Juice.

 

Omg




Wwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!

Why the fuck not!?!?!?!


How could anyone possibley like a drink so tacky, so lacking in personality, so generic, so insipid, so bland, so ball-less?! I would prefer to drink monkey semen over orange juice.





Fuck.

 

AHahahhaaaa... I still think you're awesome though.

 

to find infinite reality by finite appearance.