Quote Originally Posted by Ronnoco
Your example contradicts, Wildcad's point I believe too, that if one person believes it to be art then it is. No it isn't. Some consensus and agreement is necessary among a mixed group of peers and others familiar with art or photography to "assess" whether it is art or not.

Ronnoco
So basically, art is art, and a person is an artist, only if other artists say so?

So you have to be an artist-approved artist to declare others artists so that they can approve you as an artist...

Your argument is elitist, circular, and self-serving, not to mention narrow-minded.

Like the dictionary says: art is "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also : works so produced."

I see nothing in there about consensus, arbitrary approvals, or subjective "assessments" by anybody else.