A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.
Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.