what is art?
attempting to define
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what is art?
“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
Beuys believed everybody was an artist. He once said "every sphere of human activity, even peeling a potato can be a work of art as long as it is a conscious act," suggesting that every decision should be thought out and attempt to make or contribute to a work of art which in the end is society.
Love this definition of art, from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
... See moreArt is anything you can do well, anything you can do with quality, anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly. And there are very few things in this world that don't have options for doing it well or poorly. So you can make an art
“anything where there are options for doing it well or poorly”
the power of art
The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.
Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention
Anu Atluru
-from Brandon Stanton, Humans of NY