What is Art?

“The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art is art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.”
-Ad Reinhardt

“Art is the definition of Art.”
-Joseph Kosuth

Art is art. What makes art what it is cannot be contained through criteria. We cannot divide the whole (art) into separate measurable values that make up the whole. We cannot divide the whole into separate, measurable qualities. So we have nothing else to say about what makes up the meaning of the general.

3.4.2009