It's a very important question, but it's impossible to answer. We don't know now, and we never will. We know that a society without art is one without a story. Such a society would never exist. And I don't think that it ever has.
Art is born from myth.
Art is myth. Art speaks to us from ages past, and from the depths of ourselves like from the darkness of the time of the prehistoric cave paintings. I don't know what else to say, and I'm not sure that I answered your question. I n your works, I see the revival of the Rennaissance artist-scientist. T his is true.