Art is not, and has never been, important.

(SPOILER)I'm kidding of course. Art is important to many people. Maybe not currently on a revolutionary kind of scale, but art is about expression. And there are so many different forms of art for that expression.

Don't let anyone tell you it isn't important. Even if you art does end up 'just another piece of the pile', so what. Is art important to you? That is what you should be asking. Just do you.