Art, it has many forms and with those different forms they have many different connections to certain people. There is music, paintings,books, movies and so much more. All these different types of art can bring out emotional responses from people and they have many meanings. Have you ever read a book or listened to music and couldn’t help but smile or even cry? Art can bring out the good in people or it can represent our history. There is so much that are can convey and without it the world would be dull. Titus Kaphar talks about how using monuments can bring out our history and can even bring light to those that we haven’t seen before. The Effective Altruist group says that art has no meaning and art can’t help fix the suffering in the world. Altruism is the belief or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of other. This is doing something for someone else because they want to not because they feel obligated. Abigail Marsh talks about the capacity that people have for altruism and why people help others. Altruism and art go together because if you woke up tomorrow and there was no more art in the world then it would be unexciting.

Alternate thesis: If there was no art in the world, then there would be no happiness.