Art is about how we convey emotional information -- the "But you didn't" part of modern art is a reference to the hard part of creating art being the conception

Art is about how we convey emotional information -- the "But you didn't" part of modern art is a reference to the hard part of creating art being the conception, not the implementation. In other words, making is art is hard NOT because of the physical act BUT because of the intellectual labor of distilling or serializing emotions into something that can be made is hard. It's kind of a two-for-one in this way since you can delight people with the novel use of technology -- something they have the same access to as the artist and genuinely could have physically done as well as convey the actual message of the art. Writing software is generally pretty similar, the hard part isn't mashing the keys in the right order -- almost anyone can do that, literally. It's asserting a what will be out of the infinite possibilities of what could be.