While this is from Wikipedia, I actually like it:
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions.
The definition of art is very personal, and is different from person to person. As was said earlier, one person's art is another's trash, and vice versa. Anything, everything, and nothing can be art, it all depends on you. The way I like to think of it is that anything that really moves me is art.
"Deliberate arrangement" can be taken in a multitude of ways to be subconsciously deliberate, or just even just the work of "fate" if you believe in anything like that. The falling of the first leaf in Autumn can be art to you if you witness it and it moves you.
But Ebert still raises an excellent point, why does it matter?







