A professor of mine said in a lecture that human's have two basic instincts that are the strongest : survival and reproduction.And that everything other than these two can be considered art. So for example when you prepare a meal because you are hungry it's not art but if you prepare it in a way that is not necessary to the consumption of it than that becomes art. If you are working a job for the sole purpose of money(survival) even if the thing you do is painting, that is not art. But if you are putting rocks on top of each other for the aesthetic pleasure the product and the process gives you then that becomes art. I think this is a nice and clever way to look at art.
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