Vanderbeek writes of the ways in which we commonly express ideas and the way we use that expression to interpret the world, to grow within it. He writes "...the world hangs by a thread of verbs and nouns. Language and culture semantics are as explosive as nuclear energy." I think this hits the nail on the head when we talk about the "purpose" of art and of finding the truest forms of expression, because when we do this effectively I think that we can transcend languages, national boundaries, cultures and even time periods. Vanderbeek suggests that we as artists create "a new world language... that we invent a non-verbal international picture language." He goes on to detail a number of ways this can be done scientifically, however I believe it can be argued that this has been done in a number of ways, which maybe accounted for by the rise of the internet but when I watch a German art film, read a comic book from South America,  look at a piece of Japanese street art, I feel that this is being done in very interesting ways.