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CMV: Art without any purpose whatsoever isn't art, but worthless trash

I've heard some people say that art doesn't need to have any purpose, but I disagree with that. Artist can have many goals in their mind: 1. Making it pretty - there is nothing wrong with using art as a tool to make your surrounding look prettier 2. Making it thought provoking - art being used as means of conveying some ideas makes perfect sense 3. Recording historical events - stuff like paintings showing some important historical events can be very interesting I've probably omitted many more possible "goals", but you should get my point. Usually there is a purpose, no matter how trivial. Now lets come to my point - what about art that has no purpose? It simply exists, doing literally nothing. My favourite example is when someone left his [glasses](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/pair-of-glasses-left-on-us-gallery-floor-mistaken-for-art) on the floor in an art galerry, and visitors thought that it was an art piece as well. If someone was to try and make an interpretation of it, they could probably come up with many theories. Anyone could take a random picture or place a few objects randomly, and we could come up with a reasonable interpretation tricking ourselves into thinking that we were looking at actual art. That's why I believe that art needs to have some purpose, otherwise literally anything in our surroundings could be categorized as art EDIT: just to clarify things, my main point is that there is no art without any purpose