The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.