What is art?

ART IS...

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
- Robert Motherwell -

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
- Edgar Degas -

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”
- Friedrich Nietzsche -

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." 
- Twyla Tharp -

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
- Aristotle -

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together." 
- John Ruskin -

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."  
- Amy Lowell -

...AND MUCH MORE!