When I was a kid I didn't really give art a second thought, just something that looked nice and that seemed useless at times but as I grew older I saw it as something more important, bringing things together and being all around us.
This perspective of it came from a friend of mine who was very interested in all forms of art, painting sculptures, music, films... and she introduced me to seeing it in a new light starting by using different mediums of it and slowly working me up to appreciate more classical forms of art.