> I define art as something I can't replicate, even having seen it. I dislike this definition because it conflates mechanical skill with meaning. I cannot repl

> I define art as something I can't replicate, even having seen it. I dislike this definition because it conflates mechanical skill with meaning. I cannot replicate a Thomas Kinkade painting. But I don't care to either, because his work does absolutely nothing for me. > High art as something I couldn't have imagined existing until I had seen it. I like this more, but it also sort of conflates novelty with insight. To me, the best art shows me a detailed picture of something I have experienced but been unable to perceive clearly. It is like someone painted a picture of my own soul. Like a light has been turned on in some dark corner of my psychology where I had been stumbling for years.