For you art is expression, but the interesting question is, why do you find expression meaningful? Do the stars care about your expression? No, they're busy, th

For you art is expression, but the interesting question is, why do you find expression meaningful? Do the stars care about your expression? No, they're busy, they're fusing hydrogen to helium. Who does care then? Well, you do. Art as expression is meaningful - tautologically - and perhaps somewhat unsatisfyingly - solely because you have assigned it meaning. But, importantly, that does create real meaning - it's the only thing that can. You give expressive art meaning, and your creation of something meaningful in turn gives you meaning. Every choice we make ultimately comes back to what we find to be meaningful (or it follows on from something we do), and in far as life has no intrinsic meaning, that meaning is always and necessarily self-created (perhaps consciously, perhaps unconsciously by way of received wisdom that a person perpetuates by thoughts, words and deeds). "Art is without value" is not really an interesting statement, except in as far as it says that the speaker finds meaning elsewhere than art. It's a statement of preference couched in objective language. Personally, I agree that art is expression and that that expression is meaningful, so you and I derive meaning, at least in part, from similar choices.