Art is snapshots of one's creative growth or lack thereof. Art records historic creative insight and inspiration. Art provides directions for our passions or supports our common morality. Art is a perscriptive description of our preferences for phyical beauty by such measurements as proportion, ratios, symmetry, gender and skin tones. Art brings into focus qualities we miss in ordinary daily life.
Art is the graphic counterpart to literature.
Art is one thing all men share. Art provides the clarification of a group's or generation's identity. Art is a conduit for the expression of values between one another. Art are blueprints of daring alternative existences. Art are enhancement of the natural beauty of the materials used to make it.