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Redefining art to suit one's own preconceptions is the process in which art evolves. Once, mediums such as novels and movies, not to mention most types of music, painting, sculpture, and pretty much anything else now widely considered as art, were viewed as nonart. The artness(if you will) of...

The second statement contradicts the first. Art in the first statement is being used to create an emotional or intellectual response, which means it can't simply be an end in itself, but is instead serving a purpose.