Chris 🏳️‍🌈🧵🧝🏼Jun 22, 2025

I read a post recently that decried making #art for art’s sake in such troubled times.

I heartily disagree.

Making art, no matter the purpose, brings joy and beauty into a world sorely lacking in both. Sure, art can be a form of protest, but let’s not be limiting the Muses when we need them most.

Show threadوردي  🇵🇸Jun 22, 2025
@elfkin art is an instinct, it's what humans do, it doesn't need a purpose
Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

@wardi @elfkin
And even if art needed a purpose, making art because you want to is a purpose.

Making art because you want to and some dickhead doesn't think you "should" is a *noble* purpose, uplifting the dignity of humankind.

Jun 23, 2025 at 6:10pmWeb
Show threadPatsy (she/her)Jun 24, 2025

@petealexharris @wardi @elfkin

I would say that making art _is_ the purpose

It's the purpose of being alive, and it's why we have everything else that we have, to facilitate the making of art

(I say this not as an artist, but as an accountant, and a human)