1. Nothing is art. Art implies an elevated or sacred status. Nothing is sacred.
2. Everything is sacred. The various configurations of experiences and brain chemistry makeups coupled with the sociocultural contexts people grow up in allows meaning to prosper in infinite permutations of novel emotional reactions.
3. That which moves one significantly in a way that is noteworthy is art.
4. Things do not in themselves move without an observer to have been moved by the thing.
5. Nothing is art without human experience.
6. Discussions of what art is on an objective, collective basis, involves observing and interpreting the overarching trends of novel emotional reactions that occur within the context of a particular culture or cultures.
7. Art defined objectively is what is more likely to be art.
8. The only person who can determine what is art or not is you.
9. You are wrong about what you think is art or not. You will always be wrong.
10. Art is not about morality. It is about experience.
11. It is through the experience of art that ideas of morality are entertained.
12. Art may strongly imply or enforce certain worldviews or ideas about morality. However, the infinite permutations of novel emotional reactions is such that art may allow for a wide range of takeaways, intended or otherwise.
13. Experience in itself is inarguable.
14. Interpretation of experience is arguable.
15. Barring obvious forms of explicit harm incurred within the production or distribution of art, art is way safer than snorting a fuckton of cocaine.
16. Most good art will never be critically evaluated.
17. Most of what is you will die with you, never to be seen by another living soul in quite the same way.
18. Once you let go of the existence of perfect art, everything becomes a treasure trove from which to ransack.
19. Art is useless and serves no purpose.
20. You have a moral imperative to make art.