Why do people make Art?

People around the world make art to…

… seek personal enjoyment and satisfaction.
… express personal thoughts and feelings.
… communicate with others.
… create a more favorable environment.
… make others see more clearly.
… provide us with new visual experiences.
… record a time, place, person, or object.
… commemorate important people or events.
… reinforce cultural ties and traditions.
… seek to affect social change.
… tell stories.
… heal the sick.
… adorn themselves.
… explain the unknown.
… worship.
… create an illusion or magic.
… predict the future or remember the past.
… earn a livelihood.
… do something no one else can (or has yet done).
… amuse themselves (or make us laugh).
… make the ordinary extraordinary.
… increase our global understanding.