The role of art is to embody virtue

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More people should create things to proliferate an aesthetic into our future, not just to solve problems. This is the quality that every artist and engineer I respect shares most universally. Without this, you are doomed to churning out slop.

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Art has a purpose, which is to interest its audience.

Good art (like good anything) is art that achieves its purpose

particularly well.

How Art Can Be Good

Art has a social purpose [and] art belongs to the people. It’s not something that is hanging out there that has no connection with the needs of man. And art is unashamedly, unembarrassingly, if there is such a word, social. It is political; it is economic. The total life of man is reflected in his art.