Quote - First, define art.  I mean, define it in a measurable, totally objective way.  You can't.  Nobody can.

Art is a very individual and subjective thing. What appeals to one person doesn't appeal to someone else. It's a unique phenomena and can't really be explained, and as the old addage states "there is no accounting for taste".

You can take a toilet seat, paint it black and white stripes and hang it from a cherry tree and call it art. It's not what I would call art, but someone does.

Some years ago where I live some woman got a huge government grant for some kind of art show. What was it? She poured buckets of pig blood on a floor and rolled around in it.

That same artist gathered up carcasses of dead rabbits and strung them on trees claimed it was "a study in putrification". It was truly disgusting and generated loads of controversy. Yet it was considered "art"; she even got more government money in order to do it. Did I like it? No. Did I go see it? No. But I respect her right to express her art in whatever manner she chooses, and it's not my place to tell her how to do that.

Another "artist" got a grant for some king of lottery ticket showing. He bought instant lottery tickets and sat at a table and opened them while people watched. Now is that art? Not to me, but according to the art coucil where I live it was because they gave him money to  fund his crazy show.

 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi