What do you want from Art?

[Shankapotomus]

36. You don't believe everything is art?

I do. Even this thread is art. I don't expect anything of art but to be what it wants to be. Whether I like it or not is a different story.

What I don't want from art is a form of expression only a select few are allowed in which to participate. To me, all human art is a feeble attempt at recreating Nature. Paintings are an attempt to imitate Light on objects. Music is an attempt to imitate the sound, the sound of the wind, ocean...etc...

Nature has its grand compositions as well as its minor, silly or minimalistic works but it's all art. And to me, Outsider art is no less legitimate than any other art. Even a child's finger painting is art just as a Michelangelo. But all of it falls short of Nature, imho. There is no musical composition that can capture the power of a tornado, for example.