What is art?

the best definition of art i’ve ever heard is this:

“good art is that which is superior to a description of itself.”

i can try to describe the paintings of chuck close or the singing of ella fitzgerald, but no matter what i say, you’ll prefer actually seeing the paintings and hearing the songs for yourself.

Art is the result of human creativity…

the rest is all subjective

I tried to use that answer with my 6th grade art teacher 14 years ago. I still got bad marks on my projects.

You are either born with the ability to see art in everything or you are a learned commercial art appreciater. Either way, art is all what you make it to be. That is the beauty in it.

Duchamp gave us a urinal as his piece for an art exibit. Maurizio Cattelan gave us a life size replica of an elephant wearing a bed sheet with the legs showing and openings for the eyes. Picasso gave us deconstructed figures. Ron Mueck gives us hyper realistic sculptures. Twyla Tharp gives us the common man and woman’s street body language as formal dance… and so many more artists have given us their interpreatation of life or fragments of it. so, in the end you may be better served by asking yourself, ‘What isn’t art?’.

I like the broadest interpretation that might include the activities of a 3-year-old.
Best I’ve found is:
“Making meaningful marks.”
What is good art? An entirely different question
I also like this on folk art:
“Art is that which wells up from the hearts and hand of the people.”