Creativity/Art

I'll cross-post this on the prodeval blog; useful piece from Germaine Greer, legendary feminist, about 'what art is'; a snippet:

A week ago I confused 1,500 sixth-formers by attempting to answer the non-question: "What is art?" The students found a lot of what I said surprising. I hope too many of them didn't ditch their portfolios and start new ones on Lady Gaga, because I rather think their teachers found what I said even more confusing than they did.

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What is art? Art is anything an artist calls art. An artist is someone who makes or does something she or he thinks of as art.