What is art ?

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Hello beautiful souls So I am asking a very general question, but I often find myself twisted by the very meaning of Art. There are people who go to expensive schools and when they leave the school, it is to be believed that they are artists, but are they ? And there are people who never get the chance to go to any kind of school, but there is a fire burning inside them with passion which guides them to create, and many educated people think they are not artists but I can not agree with that. I myself, am an educated artist and I studied arts for all my life. But one thing I learned is that universities and schools teach nothing about art to us, they just show us what it is, they discuss the artists while they were not giving a damn about the theoretical issues while they were alive. I think art arises from a simple smile to a stranger in a rainy street, or from a deep fear that is not to explained by words, but it surely doesn't come from sitting behind the tables of schools, right ? So as I go further and further in my artistic researches, both in choreography and painting, this questions becomes more and more important, and it's one of my very favorite topics to discuss. What do you think about arts ? How can you explain what art is ? PS : The picture is me covering myself by Woody Allan's mask that I made, the collection is called tree of life. What do you think about it ?