what is art?

“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.

Love this definition of art, from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

Art 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

“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”

― Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)

Tolstoy, in What is Art?

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression… Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea o

Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.