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?

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

the more I think about it, the more I come back to the thought: not everything could be verbalized. And art in its essence is a form of communication through emotions rather than cognition 

As F.Schiller believed that through art individuals elevate themselves morally and intellectually, I tend to agree with that.