Thank you @resserts for defining 'art':
'I think art as a whole should be subversive and provocative and a protest. It should challenge perception and authority and tradition. It should evoke deep emotions, often conflicting and tumultuous. If it's not doing some combination of these things, it's less art than mere design or pretty pictures.'

Other than that, I just want to say that 'art' includes literature.

Yes!!!

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
Banksy

And, "The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke." Jerzy Kosinski

There is art and then there is craft. Art tells us truths that we otherwise may not perceive. (Paraphrasing Picasso)

It is an expression of the subject matter created to bring in critical thinking or show creativity and self reflection. Many artists have protested things, ideas, etc. in their artwork. It is just another freedom of thought and expression without words or actions.

I think art as a whole should be subversive and provocative and a protest. It should challenge perception and authority and tradition. It should evoke deep emotions, often conflicting and tumultuous. If it's not doing some combination of these things, it's less art than mere design or pretty pictures.

Art has the power to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

I'm an artist. Art is a reflection of the society in which it was created. No art should ever be censored. It's the same thing as burning books no matter how 'ugly' they may seem to some people. A current example is the Metropolitan Museum of Art has had a petition against one of its famous works of art because, to some people, it is 'suggestive'. Well, then we have to remove all of the works of Degas and Picasso, too. Stupidity in action...

Art works better than words. Art is the most influential tool throughout human history crossing all cultures and groups.

I love art to be used for anything !!!!