Comments on: Deep Thought Thursday: (a good one)

By: Nancy Wylie

Nancy Wylie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:32:58 +0000

I have a B.C. cartoon that that I just love. B.C. says, “My uncle Squiggley was a really lousy artist.” “How lousy was he?” “You could describe a thousand of his paintings with a single word.”

By: bill Nagel

bill Nagel — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:47:21 +0000

Art is fun

By: Gretchin Lair

Gretchin Lair — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:29:19 +0000

Art is exported awe. I saw that in an essay by Michael Fredrick Davis Hemming and it’s always stuck with me.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:37:46 +0000

I would second Paula’s – I was going to say: Art is everywhere if we only open our eyes. I was trying to come up with a clever acronym, A.R.T. but I just don’t have it in me right now. I’ll have to think about it.

By: Leslie Beauregard

Leslie Beauregard — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:35:12 +0000

Art is simply forms of communication. Everyone can do it, but no one does it quite the same. That is what’s beautiful and interesting about it.

By: de Shan

de Shan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:14:15 +0000

art is an outward expression of an inward feeling, thought or idea.

By: Catharine Bennett

Catharine Bennett — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:41:50 +0000

Art is the unmanifest made manifest. Joseph Beuys

By: Michael Lynn Adams

Michael Lynn Adams — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:25:47 +0000

Defining Art limits it. Art like Love and Beauty must be without limits to survive.

By: Michael Lynn Adams

Michael Lynn Adams — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:25:19 +0000

Defining Art limits it. Art like Love and Beauty must to without limits to survive.

By: Brenda Elaine

Brenda Elaine — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:47:45 +0000

“Art is an act of creativity no longer defined by upper class males. Art is everything from beadweaving to painting, metalsmithing to knotting, pen and paper to crayon and cardboard and a lot more. Art, unlike science, is not quantifiable by any but the most initmately personal of equations. It is, however, qualifiable because art is, ultimately, personal expression.” This is a great start posted by Patricia. Then we could add to that the theatrical and musical arts whether it is a play, a movie, a dance, a song, or small part of any of the above. Then there is the art of selling, the art of teaching, or any number of things that we say there is an art to if done creatively. So this complicates the definition – or shall we say expands the definition possibly even simplifying it to a much broader definition to anything that is of a creative nature. We could limit the definition to fine art – but even that would be a morphing definition that is ever elusive.