Well, let's be a little more discretionary about how we bandy about the word "art" here, okay? IMVHO, we use it with far too much largesse. Like I said in another thread on a similar topic, just because it looks pretty over the couch doesn't make it art. And how do we draw that distinction? Hell if I know. All I can tell you is that, in my field, I see a lot of people who call themselves "actors" and would pretty POd if I or anyone else said something to the contrary. Still, you can look at them and see it just ain't happening. Well, at the risk of sounding like an elitist snob, the same holds true with our over-reaching generalizations of "art". We seem to want to think that everyone can be an artist by just making the attempt. Well, uhm, no. Calling yourself an artist and your work "art" doesn't automatically make it so, no more than Julia Roberts has any right to call herself an "actress". It's a tough one, no argument about that. But let's not do a disservice to the people whose work is indeed Art With a Capital A just so we can make everyone feel good about themselves.