00:00or is it so the question i want to answer today is how do we define art and once we
00:06know that
00:07perhaps we can answer the second question which is how can we tell if some art is better than
00:13other art unfortunately the first question is surprisingly hard to answer we throw around the
00:19word art all the time when someone hands us a paintbrush and a blank canvas we know they're
00:25making art when we go to a gallery and see a bunch of abstract shapes on a canvas we know
00:31that we're
00:32looking at art but actually those two things aren't very similar at all a painter making a conscious
00:39decision to mix colors in a certain way is a long way away from someone making a complete hash
00:46of trying to draw a nose and yet we use the same word for both of those things so the
00:53first step is
00:53going to be to find a quality that all art has in common this shouldn't be too difficult
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