They wanted to contribute to the kosmos or the sense of the right ordering of the multiple parts of the world. Engagement in any of the four primary artistic disciplines involves five distinct motivations. Amateur art is practiced during and after primary, secondary and tertiary school. It is in the amateur arts that talent is first disciplined in an artistic craft and an informed and appreciative audience is initially cultivated. To a degree, it involves the use of style for enjoyment and persuasion.
Production is motivated by the challenge of marrying aesthetic to utilitarian value.
At its best it contributes elegance to the human environment defined as simple but effective, or the best looking thing that works . In the entertainment arts, America currently leads the world. It is the primary research and development segment of the arts industry. It generates enlightenment , i.e. it sheds light on the nature of the human condition on the individual and society. And, as in pure science, fine art is not financially self-supporting.