Is Art a “Transformative Force”?

The compulsion to create and consume art is innately human. Art connects our conscious and subconscious mind. It serves as a respite by satisfying the human desire to express, reflect, ponder, perceive, question, conceptualize, philosophize, intellectualize, emote. Beyond that it serves no higher purpose. The fact art can trigger discourse such as conjuring the notion “that it might somehow exert a transformative force in the larger world” is intrinsically its significance.