That's the question I've been asking myself lately. What kind of value do we GIVE as artists?!
For me, most of the time when I draw, I think about aesthetics, briefly said: a good balance in the image between colour/compositions/figures/lines/shapes.
(Above, drawing i made 7 years ago: www.ckeo.nl)
(Sorry for my bad grammar by the way!)
I think artists give us a sense of order and beauty in reality. Nature by itself is quite chaotic, but Artists transcend that chaos and mix their perceptions with nature to create something more sublime :)
Very true, and they can reveal forces in our societys that interrupt the peaceful way of nature and are based on false believes. :) Nature itself is not so chaotic, if you think about all the regularitys in animals and plants behaviour.