how important to you is art, generally? what does it mean to you in light of your INFP'ness? (this might include your own personal appreciation of, and/or creation of artworks).

do you think art is important, or should be important, to people en masse? does it piss you off when scientists or other heavily analytical logical types crap on art?

I enjoy art when I come across it, and I enjoy creating art, but don't have a particularly strong drive to seek it out. If it's there, I very much appreciate it, and the rare times I lift a pencil or paintbrush, I become very immersed in the experience. So it's a bit strange. It's weird--when I was younger, I really loved drawing and creating, but life intervened, and now there's little drive to get back into it. I don't doubt that I would enjoy it just as much once I begin though.

When other people crap on art, it only pisses me off if they do it in an arrogant-yet-ignorant way. I understand if someone doesn't like or 'get' art though, so those sorts of people don't annoy me.

Art is food for the soul. As a part of culture, it forms part of the matrix of civilization, of our social evolution. I personally believe that art helps us not only connect with each other, but to all there is in life that is worth experiencing or pondering about. I think that one's growing sensitivity to art awakens one's innate desire for understanding and/or harmony. Aesthetic feelings are therefore important to me, from a social perspective. Also, I think artistic expressions are to be valued as marks of subjective creativity and intra-personal evolution. I guess I lean more heavily on the subjective rather than the objective importance of art, although I may also seek art in a purely sensual way and cannot imagine a world without it - for they say that real art is defined (objectively speaking) as something that enables us to empathize with forms and pure ideals (e.g. balance, contrast, movement etc.) based on the natural world.

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