What is art?

This is a question I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. Why is important, and why do we care? 

I’m not a pessimist, like Rousseau: he talks about societies that develop the arts and sciences leads to corruption and moral degradation; when we can really just survive on the bare necessities, right?

The context on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the famous Discourse on the Arts and Sciences:

https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/arts.pdf

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