1. Imaginative work uch a novel, play, film, fairytale, and legend preent a more accurate and meaningful picture of human experience than do factual account. Becaue the creator of fiction hape and focu on reality rather than report it literally, their creation have a more lating ignificance.
2. The art (painting, muic, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwie hidden idea and impule of a ociety.
3. It i the artit, not the critic, who give ociety omething of lating value. A peron who evaluate work of art, uch a novel, film muic, painting, etc.
4. A long a people in a ociety are hungry or out of work or lack the baic kill needed to urvive, the ue of public reource to upport the art i inappropriate-and, perhap, even cruel-when one conider all the potential ue of uch money.
5. In order for any work of art-whether film, literature, culpture, or a ong-to have merit, it mut be undertandable to mot people.