There’s no definitive answer to this question. I expect there’s a bias dependent on which you do. To me, art is all about making an emotional connection, therefore I think music is the most pure artform, because it makes the most direct emotional connection. I’m not a musician, but a writer, yet I think writing fiction has more in common with musical composition than writing non-fiction, and I often make analogies to demonstrate that.

I expect humans started all 3 artforms around the same time, hundreds of thousands of years ago. They all involve a projection of someone’s inner world so that others could have the same emotional experience. Artworks in the form of cave-paintings were an attempt to connect with the spiritual realm often through animal depictions. I think there was a time when we were more aware of our interdependence on the natural world, and we’ve largely lost that. It’s a theme that emerges in my own fiction.

We all have imagination, which is a form of mental time-travel, both into the past and the future, which I expect we share with other sentient creatures. But only humans, I suspect, can ‘time-travel’ into realms that only exist in the imagination. Storytelling is more suited to that than art or music.